A Paris court handed a French retiree a one-month suspended sentence Thursday for attacking a Middle Eastern woman who was wearing a face-covering Muslim veil.
The court also ordered Jeanne Ruby, a retired English teacher, to pay €800 ($1,140) in damages to the victim, a citizen of the United Arab Emirates who was on holiday in Paris when the February incident took place.
Ruby had been charged with "aggravated violence" for scratching, biting and slapping the woman and snatching her veil off. The prosecutor in the case had asked Ruby be given a two-month suspended sentence. [The Associated Press] Read more
