Belgian right-wingers have offered to pay a 250 euros ($310) bounty to anyone who reports a veiled woman to police, in the wake of face veil riots in Brussels, the Europe News website reports today (June 6, 2012).
Filip Dewinter -- a senior figure within Vlaams Belang, a right-wing party -- said the riots had made police apprehensive about enforcing the burqa ban and that the payment should put pressure on authorities to further enforce it.
"It's a textile prison for the women who have to live under it," he said.
It comes after protesters hurled bins and metal barriers at a Brussels police station last week, after a Muslim woman was arrested for refusing to remove her face veil, or niqab.
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