The veiled woman taken by an elected RN will file a complaint

The veiled woman taken to task by an elected National Assembly at the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comte will file a complaint with the parquet floor of Dijon, announced Wednesday his lawyer Me Sana Ben Hadj Younes.

This is a complaint "for violence committed in meetings by persons holding public authority over minor and major race," said a statement from the CCIF (Collective against Islamophobia in France).

On Friday, Julien Odoul, member of the national office of the National Assembly and president of the RN group at the regional assembly, asked in plenary session that this mother of Muslim student removes her veil. Since this episode, filmed and viewed hundreds of thousands of times, the controversy has continued to swell, causing a stir up within the majority.

Julien Odoul targeted by the two complaints

According to the statement, a second complaint will also be filed with the Paris prosecutor's office this time for "public provocation to racial hatred by elected officials". This parallel complaint concerns the tweet of the elected RN Julien Odoul who accompanied the video of the incident and spoke about the attack on October 3 at the police headquarters of Paris: "After the murder of our 4 policemen, we can not not tolerate this communitarian provocation, "he wrote.

These two complaints are directed at the elected RN Julien Odoul, as well as a woman who allegedly "chased her in the corridors" of the Regional Council and subjected her to verbal abuse "because of the wearing of her veil and her supposed belonging. or real to the Muslim religion ".

"My client has been humiliated, her image has been broadcast everywhere, she is very strong and her son sees a psychologist," said lawyer Sana Ben Hadj.

This Wednesday, nearly 200 people showed their support for this woman in the streets of Besancon. Tuesday, 90 personalities had signed a forum to encourage Emmanuel Macron to recognize that she had been a victim of "aggression".