In , at the Sévigné high school, the “affair of the veil” and the slap raises the spirits

REPORTAGE – Two days after a student slapped a teacher who asked her to remove her veil, the relatives of the young girl placed in police custody refute the teacher’s version, although accredited by investigators.

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They arrived in front of the Sévigné high school in a light rain, some with a veil, sometimes topped with a hood, others with their free hair falling on their sweatshirt. Among these young girls are the two older sisters of Warda H., a student at this professional and technological establishment in Tourcoing (North) suspected of having slapped a teacher late Monday afternoon while she was asked her to remove the veil that she arranged on her head when leaving class.

« We came to support Warda. My parents are upset, they can’t sleep anymore. After the altercation, she came home and told us right away. She said she was going to be summoned, when the police knocked on the door to arrest her (October 7, Editor’s note), reports Rania, in a black hijab, one of the sisters of this family of seven children. She’s a nice girl, a good student. The year of his baccalaureate, in…

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