The
French police
officers armed with pepper spray and batons marched onto a beach yesterday and ordered a Muslim woman to strip off.
Four
burly cops stood over the middle-aged woman, who had been quietly
sunbathing on the Promenade des Anglais beach in Nice - yards from the
scene of the Bastille Day lorry attack - and watched her take off a
Muslim-style garment which protected her modesty.
It is thought the woman was given a warning about the dress code on the beach and was handed an on-the-spot fine.
The woman, who was wearing a
traditional headscarf and matching top, was spoken to by the officers,
who have been tasked with implementing the ban. France prides itself on
its secular society and the burka is banned. That has now spread to the
burkini
Another young Muslim mother was ordered off the beach at Cannes and fined for simply wearing a headscarf.
Three
armed officers pointed a pepper spray canister in the 34-year-old's
face and told her she was in breach of a new rule outlawing swimming
costumes that cover the entire body.
She
said the 'racist' officers simply wanted to humiliate her in front of
her children and other family members, even though she was not even
wearing a burkini.
It
was the latest in a series of incidents in the south of France and
comes after video emerged of armed police waiting for Muslim women to
come out of the sea at nearby Nice, and then warning them about their
choice of headscarves.
And just days ago, four women were fined 38 euros for wearing their burkinis on the beach in Cannes.
Armed French police order Muslim woman to remove her burkini on packed Nice beach or they will force her to
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