French burka ban: police arrest two veiled women

by Peter Allen
Telegraph
April 11, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1309/french-burka-ban-police-arrest-two-veiled-women

Excerpt:

French police arrested two veiled women this morning just hours after the country's new ban on wearing the burka in public came into forcce.

The women were arrested along with several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris against the new law.

Jourrnalists at the scene said the arrests came after police moved in to break up the protest which had not been authorised.

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