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Mulhouse: for skirts deemed "too short", two young women violently attacked

2020-09-24T10:35:55.182Z


The perpetrator was arrested and taken into custody. This assault echoes that committed last Friday in Strasbourg against a 22-year-old student.


Two young women of twenty were attacked Wednesday in Mulhouse by an 18-year-old man who allegedly accused them of their skirts "

too short

", according to the first elements of the investigation.

The scene took place around 4:30 pm near the “

Porte Jeune

” shopping center in the city center.

Read also: The attack of a student in a skirt in Strasbourg raises indignation

One of the two victims first received a slap before being pinned to the ground on the tram platform, specifies France Bleu.

Trying to intervene, her friend was pushed back by the individual and taken by the throat.

She was also reportedly slightly injured in the knee.

The alleged author was arrested by the Grenoble police less than 15 minutes after the incident.

This attack echoes that committed last Friday in Strasbourg against a 22-year-old student who was punched in the face on the grounds that she was also wearing a skirt.

On this case the former Secretary of State in charge of equality between men and women Marlène Schiappa recalled that

"the skirt is not responsible for aggression, and women even less".

Read also: Strasbourg: insulted and beaten because she wears a skirt, a student complains

Source: lefigaro

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