Two French women charged over racist stabbing of veiled Muslims

Macron epitomizes bigotry. He closed down at least 70 masjid in France while he talks about openness. He is a hypocrite of worst kind. When Muslims are attacked and killed by hateful French people and their anti-Muslim government, you won't hear the news unless someone mentions such in social media. But when a Muslim immigrant reacts to daily abuse and bigotry he/she sees around, his/her act becomes headline news. Consider the story below which did not make headlines in the western world until several days later.
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Two women accused of stabbing two other women wearing Muslim headscarves near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and trying to rip off their veils have been charged with assault and racist slurs, legal sources told AFP news agency on Thursday.

The case comes amid heightened racial tensions following the killing last week of a French teacher who had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The women accused over the assault were drunk when they came across a group of Muslim women and children in the Champ de Mars park at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

The Muslim family complained about the other women’s dog, saying they felt threatened by it. In the ensuing argument, one of the women with the dog pulled a knife and stabbed two of the veiled women, aged 19 and 40.

The 40-year-old woman sustained six stab wounds and is being treated in hospital for a perforated lung. The younger victim was stabbed three times and was also treated in hospital but has since been discharged.

The main suspect has been placed in preventive custody while her friend has been released on bail, sources close to the investigation said.

The pair were charged late Wednesday with assault aggravated by the use of a weapon, drunkenness, racial insults and the fact that they acted together.

But the victims’ lawyer Arie Alimi has called for the women to face stiffer charges, accusing them of attempted murder linked to the victims’ race or religion.

He said one of the women specifically took issue with the headscarves worn by several women in the Muslim family, referring to it as “that thing you have on your head”.

The two suspects deny making racial insults.

Their lawyer Bernard Solitude warned against “blowing this story out of proportion” and said it was important to “stick to the facts: a row which degenerated after insults were made”.

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Two Muslim women were “stabbed repeatedly” and called “dirty Arabs” under the Eiffel Tower amid rising tensions in France following the beheading of a teacher, according to reports.

The victims — identified only by their first names, Kenza and Amel — told French media they were attacked by two other women after asking the ladies to control their dogs as they walked by the Paris landmark.

Their screams were caught on a video going viral in the French capital, Metro UK said.

Kenza was stabbed six times and ended up in a local hospital with a punctured lung, while Amel needed surgery for stab wounds on her hands, local reports said.



The incident caused a furore on social media with some people accusing the French media of remaining silent about an attack they saw as clearly anti-Muslim.

The main suspect has been placed in preventive custody while her friend has been released on bail, sources close to the investigation said.

The pair were charged late Wednesday with assault aggravated by the use of a weapon, drunkenness, racial insults and the fact that they acted together.

But the victims' lawyer Arie Alimi has called for the women to face stiffer charges, accusing them of attempted murder linked to the victims' race or religion. 

Alimi accused the French authorities -- which have closed a mosque on the outskirts of Paris and moved to shut down several Muslim groups in the aftermath of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by an 18-year-old Chechen radical -- of a "witch hunt".

He argued it had the effect of helping jihadists "reach their goal, which is the stigmatising of Muslims leading to more individuals becoming radicalised".




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