Two women have lodged a complaint after being denied, because of the veil they wore, the right to register for a sale organized by a charity in Cross, in the Lille area, learned Monday AFP police source.
Refused because of their veil
A video filmed by one of the two women and broadcast on social networks shows the president of the association R'eveil - which supports the victims of traumatic brain injury and organizes every year this sale - recording the inscriptions in a Wasquehal Municipal Hall, neighboring municipality, and throw them: "I will not take you, ladies, do not stand in line, you waste your time ..."
"You do not take us because we have the veil?", Replies one of the two women on the images. "Yes ... I do not prefer, it's wrong," says the president of the association. After a tense exchange, and while one of the two veiled women claims to want to file a complaint, the organizer provocatively tells them her identity and the direction of the nearest police station. Viralized, the video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social networks.
Another example of the daily Islamophobia suffered by Muslims in France and particularly veiled women ... Young women caught on this video simply want to buy a location for the clearance sale of Cross (59) pic.twitter.com/ 2N6Dg1i2tK
-. (@SisiACZ) April 27, 2019"I made an awkward analogy"
"A complaint was filed at the police station of Roubaix Saturday afternoon for non-public insults because of ethnicity, origin, nation, race or religion," confirmed Monday the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of the North. After having made his remarks in the Voix du Nord , the organizer of the braderie "apologized" in a short text published on the website of the association R'eveil.
"The organization of the flea market requires four months of work, as well as the organization of a plan security attack that is very expensive.On registration, tired and sick, I made a quick analogy and awkward (... ) I stuck in a haughty and naughty attitude, my tongue was faster than my reason ", she justifies herself. "I did not realize that I was violently hurting a whole population, and I apologize to those two people and to all the people who were shocked," the organizer, decorated with the Legion honor in 2012.