女２人がイスラム教徒女性刺す、暴行容疑で予審開始　仏

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】仏パリのエッフェル塔近くでイスラム教徒の女性2人を刃物で刺し、ベールをはぎ取ろうとしたとされる容疑者の女2人に対し、当局は暴行の容疑で予審を開始することを決定した。司法筋がAFPに明らかにした。（写真は資料写真）
　容疑者らは、エッフェル塔に隣接するシャンドマルス公園で子連れのイスラム教徒の女性たちに出くわした時、酒に酔い、犬を連れていた。イスラム教徒の女性たちがその犬に危険を感じると苦情を言うと、容疑者の１人はナイフを取り出し、ベールを着用していた１９歳と４０歳の女性を刺した。
　４０歳の女性は６か所を刺され、肺に穴が開いて病院で治療を受けている。１９歳の女性は３回刺され、病院で治療を受けたがすでに退院している。
　被害者の女性２人はいずれも、容疑者の女２人に「汚いアラブ人」と呼ばれ、「ここはお前たちが住む場所ではない」と言われたと主張している。
　被害者側の代理人のアリエ・アリミ氏によると、容疑者の１人は被害者らが着用していたベールを特に問題視し、「頭にかぶっているそれ」と呼んだ。さらに、被害者らのベールをはぎ取ろうとしたり、頭部を殴ろうとしたりしたという。
　容疑者２人は、人種差別発言については否定している。
　フランスでは先週、イスラム教の預言者ムハンマドの風刺画を授業で見せた教師が斬首されて死亡する事件が発生したばかりで、人種間の緊張が高まっていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/10/26-12:57）

Two women accused of stabbing two other women wearing Muslim headscarves near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and trying to rip off their veils have been charged with assault and racist slurs, legal sources told AFP on Thursday.
The case comes amid heightened racial tensions following the jihadist killing last week of a French teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
The women accused over the assault were drunk when they came across a group of Muslim women and children in the Champ de Mars park at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
The Muslim family complained about the other women's dog, saying they felt threatened by it.
In the ensuing row one of the women with the dog pulled a knife and stabbed two of the veiled women, aged 19 and 40.
The 40-year-old woman sustained six stab wounds and is being treated in hospital for a perforated lung.
The younger victim was stabbed three times and was also treated in hospital but has since been discharged.
Both victims claimed their attackers called them dirty Arabs and told them: This is not your home.
- 'Witch hunt' -
The incident caused a furore on social media with some people accusing the French media of remaining silent about an attack they saw as clearly anti-Muslim.
The main suspect has been placed in preventive custody while her friend has been released on bail, sources close to the investigation said.
The pair were charged late Wednesday with assault aggravated by the use of a weapon, drunkenness, racial insults and the fact that they acted together.
But the victims' lawyer Arie Alimi has called for the women to face stiffer charges, accusing them of attempted murder linked to the victims' race or religion.
He said one of the women specifically took issue with the headscarves worn by several women in the Muslim family, referring to it as that thing you have on your head.
He also accused the suspects of trying to rip off their victims' veils and of aiming blows at the head.
The two suspects deny making racial insults.
Their lawyer Bernard Solitude warned against blowing this story out of proportion and said it was important to stick to the facts: a row which degenerated after insults were made.
Alimi accused the French authorities -- which have closed a mosque on the outskirts of Paris and moved to shut down several Muslim groups in the aftermath of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by an 18-year-old Chechen radical -- of a witch hunt.
He argued it had the effect of helping jihadists reach their goal, which is the stigmatising of Muslims leading to more individuals becoming radicalised.