Wednesday, 5. May 2010
Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 5, 2010 at 2:37:00 PM CEST
Italian police fine woman for wearing burqa in public
The growing European row over bans on Muslim veils spread to Italy yesterday after a Tunisian-born woman was fined for wearing a burqa, the first time such a penalty has been imposed in the country.
Amel Marmouri, 26, was stopped by carabinieri officers in a spot check outside a post office in Novara in northern Italy and given a 500 euro (£431) fine, payable within 90 days. She at first declined to lift her veil to be identified because the officers were male, but agreed when a municipal police patrol which included a woman officer was summoned.
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