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Police officers armed with pepper spray and batons marched onto Cannes beach, Nice, France on Tuesday and ordered a Muslim woman wearing a burkini to strip off, and after she did so, wrote down a fine for her.
Images of the confrontation on Tuesday show at least four police officers standing over the lady who was simply resting on the shore at the town’s Promenade des Anglais, the scene of last month’s Bastille Day lorry attack.
According to the woman, the ‘racist’ officers simply wanted to humiliate her in front of her children and other family members, even though she was not even wearing a burkini.
“I was sitting on a beach with my family,” said the 34-year-old who gave only her first name, Siam. I was wearing a classic headscarf. I had no intention of swimming.”
‘I wasn’t even planning to swim, just to dip my feet,’ said Siam, who was wearing leggings, a top, and a headscarf.
When asked why she was dressed ‘inappropriately’, Sian replied:
‘I didn’t know exactly what was going on, I hadn’t really followed the controversy’.
‘Today we are not allowed on the beach. Tomorrow, the street? Tomorrow, we’ll be forbidden from practicing our religion at all?
