The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France draws our attention to reports that two police officers from Trappes, one of who was involved in the alleged harassment of a Muslim woman that led to violent clashes there in July, were taken into … Continue reading
Valeria Costa-Kostritsky talks to young Muslim women in the French town of Trappes. LRB Blog, 29 August 2013
About 250 people clashed with police firing tear gas in a Paris suburb on Friday, in apparent protest over enforcement of France’s ban on Islamic face veils. Four police officers were injured and six people were arrested, while a 14-year-old boy … Continue reading
On Sunday 14 July in Trappes (west of Paris) a 21-year-old Muslim woman wearing the veil was attacked by two men in their 30s who lived in the same area as the young woman. As she crossed the bridge in … Continue reading
A French court has convicted a woman for insulting police who ticketed her for wearing a face-covering Muslim veil, banned by French law. The confrontation between Cassandra Belin, her husband and police triggered riots in the Paris suburb of Trappes … Continue reading
A lawyer representing a young woman arrested for wearing a full-face veil is trying to get France’s burka ban ruled unconstitutional. The trial of Cassandra Belin, whose arrest was followed by riots in Trappes, near Paris, began in Versailles on … Continue reading
European judges will on Wednesday hear the case of a 23-year-old French woman who claims the country’s highly contentious ban on full-face veils violates her rights. The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hear arguments in the case … Continue reading
Cassandra Bélin’s husband Michaël Khiri with her lawyer Philippe Bataille A French lawyer has launched a new constitutional challenge to France’s burka ban as part of the defence of a woman whose arrest for wearing Islamic face-covering sparked riots in … Continue reading
Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 21-27 October 2013
This was the front of last week’s edition of the French weekly L’Express. The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France points out that it was just the latest in a series of shock covers about Islam, and not only in l’Express. It … Continue reading