The veiled mother assaulted by Julien Odoul complains

The veiled mother violently taken part Friday by a RN elected during a school trip to the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comte decided to file a complaint in Dijon and Paris, announced Wednesday the Collective against Islamophobia in France.

A first complaint must be filed Thursday "at the prosecutor's office in Dijon" in order to seek prosecution for "violence committed in meetings by persons with public authority over minor and major race," said the statement.

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On Friday, Julien Odoul, member of the national office of the National Assembly and president of the group RN at the regional assembly, had asked in session that this mother of Muslim student removes her veil. The elected representatives of the RN had left the room, as well as this woman who claims to have subsequently been verbally abused by some of them.

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"Not a question of secularism but of racism"

A second complaint must be filed Friday in the Paris court, this time for public provocation to racial hatred by elected officials, the statement added. This parallel complaint refers to Odoul's tweet that accompanied the video and referred to the attack on October 3 at the Paris police headquarters: "After the assassination of our 4 policemen, we can not tolerate this communitarian provocation," he said. he writes. "My client has been humiliated, her image has been spread everywhere, she is very marked and her son sees a psychologist", told AFP his lawyer, Mr. Sana Ben Hadj. "It's not just a question of secularism, but of racism. We try to exclude Muslims from the Republic »she added. "Without her, this school trip could not take place, there were no other parents who could make themselves available."

Since this episode, filmed and viewed hundreds of thousands of times, the controversy has continued to swell, causing a stir up within the majority. "Today, I have a negative opinion of what is called the Republic," said the mother in an interview with the CCIF, which hears with other associations to take civil action with him.

According to a December 2013 State Council study, accompanying persons can not be considered auxiliary agents of the public service and are therefore not subject to the religious neutrality imposed on teachers.

LIBERATION (with AFP)