A fact of Islamophobic violence? A veiled woman was physically assaulted this Thursday evening by around twenty individuals in the Red Cross district in Reims, in the Marne, according to information from Franceinfo. The victim filed a complaint, AFP learned from police source and the prosecution learned on Friday.
According to the account of the facts reported by the local press and AFP, citing police sources, the 20 -year -old victim was apostrophy by a group of young individuals as she went to her mother. One of them, who would be in dispute with the complainant according to France 3, would have approached to ask her to remove her veil, which she refused to do.
Nose and cheekbones
Islamophobic insults were then said to have been launched towards the victim. The individual who had approached her would have removed her veil by force and assembled several shots on the face, before leaving the premises. The young woman is injured in the nose and cheekbones, but her condition did not require hospital transport.
Reims prosecutor François Schneider said on Friday afternoon that the victim had been “struck by a single individual”, that the buildings of his injuries by a medico-judicial unit were underway and an open investigation. No arrest has yet taken place at this stage, said the prosecutor, who has not communicated on the grounds of the incident at the moment, or on the profile of the alleged aggressor (s).
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This did not prevent the political sphere from quickly seizing the subject on social networks. “When Islamophobic fachos have been encouraged from the government and the media, sexist violence is unleashed. That’s enough! », In particular reacted on X the leader of France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
When Islamophobic fachos have been encouraged from the government and the media, sexist violence is unleashed. That’s enough! https://t.co/2txoaenkr6
-Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@jlmelenchon) June 20, 2025
“If they are confirmed, these facts are unacceptable as they infringe the integrity of people and religious freedom,” reacted the Marne prefecture in a statement published at the end of the afternoon. “State services have attached to representatives of Muslim worship to ensure them from the attention of the state and the vigilance of the police and gendarmerie forces,” added the prefecture.
Solicited, the mayor of Reims Arnaud Robinet (Horizons) refused to express himself on this assault at the moment, “not having the conclusions of the investigation,” he justified.
