He's attacking two women for a skirt that's too short? Two months in prison

The Mulhouse court (illustration).

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Arrested Wednesday in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) after assaulting two young women on the grounds that one of them was wearing an outfit he considered "too short", a man was sentenced on Thursday.

He received a two-month suspended prison sentence and will also have to perform 75 hours of community service and has the obligation to do a citizenship course.

The young man had attacked two friends, aged 19 and 20, who were waiting at a tram station in the center of Mulhouse.

According to the first elements, he would have launched to the one who was wearing mini-shorts: "you don't want to dress shorter?

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The tone would then be raised and he would have pushed the young woman who would have fallen to the ground.

Then he would also have seized by the neck his friend who was trying to intervene, according to a police source.

Quickly arrested, the attacker admitted the facts, while affirming that he did not want to verbally attack the young woman but to tease her.

This attack is part of a context of gender-based violence in Alsace.

Tuesday, a student from Strasbourg complained of having been hit by three men.

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