A French prosecutor yesterday sought a six-month suspended sentence at a hearing for a teenager who sported the Islamic veil -- which is banned in public in France -- and bit a policewoman in July, the Europe News website reports today (September 7, 2012).
Louise-Marie Suisse, 18, turned up for the hearing in a full-body niqab but with her face uncovered, and wearing gloves.
Suisse was stopped by two police officers near a mosque in the center of Marseille in late July. She was wearing a full-face veil and refused to cooperate with police, when asked to produce identity papers. She eventually bit one of them.
At yesterday's hearing Suisse said she was "attacked" by the police, and added that "they told me, take off this rubbish."
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