Pierre DJ and Isabelle P., living in Mérignac, were referred Thursday to the Bordeaux public prosecutor's office. They practiced hijama on their clients, a traditional medicine popular among Muslims who see it as prophetic care.
The practice, under the guise of rigor, consists of incising one or more parts of a person's body to place suction cups there and “extract harmful substances” In Arabic, hijama designates the act of sucking an infant at its mother's breast.