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Six held over violence in France after police check veiled woman
Reuters ^ | July 20, 2013 | By Chine Labbe and Alexandria Sage

Posted on 07/20/2013 7:15:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Six people were arrested after overnight violence that erupted in a Paris suburb after police checked the identity of a woman wearing a Muslim veil.

It is illegal in France for women to wear full face veils in public but the law is contested in the mainly Muslim suburbs that ring major cities - where tensions reign in relations between residents and police.

In Trappes, a gritty suburb southwest of Paris, police said a crowd gathered in response to the arrest on Thursday of a man who had assaulted a police officer during an identity check on his wife, who was entirely veiled.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: comingtoamerica; eurabia; europeanunion; france; islam; islamofascism; muslims
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the mainly Muslim suburbs that ring major cities

Metaphorically, bomb collars on hostages. Might not end well.

21 posted on 07/20/2013 11:06:59 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: keving

You’re right. Embarassing for America that they (and they’re notthe only country either) who are now more American than here in the good old USA.


22 posted on 07/20/2013 1:11:31 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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