French waitress apparently attacked by Muslim men for serving alcohol during Ramadan
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First posted: Thursday, June 09, 2016 11:35 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 09, 2016 11:44 AM EDT
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A waitress in France was allegedly attacked by a pair of Muslim men for serving alcohol during Ramadan.
The beating in the French Riviera city of Nice has raised further cries of protest from the French who fear the spread of radical Islam in their country.
The waitress, a Muslim of Tunisian origin, said she was serving drinks Monday on the patio of the Vitis Cafe when two men began harassing her.
"They pointed to the bottles of alcohol behind the bar, then one of them told me in Arabic: 'You should be ashamed of yourself serving alcohol in the Ramadan period,'" she told the U.K. Telegraph.
Muslims mark the holy month of Ramadan with fasting and abstain from drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.
She said one of the men also told her: "If I was God, I would hang you."
She responded: "You're not God to judge me."
That's when one man allegedly called her a "whore" and slapped her face, knocking her to the ground and giving her a black eye. The attack was caught on security camera.
That footage has been turned over to police, and they've reportedly identified both men.
One is a known illegal immigrant and a threatening figure in the neighbourhood, according to reports. Neither were named.
The woman said the episode left her feeling "debased, humiliated, sullied."
She said she'd served alcohol previously in Tunisia with no problem, and worried for the future of her new country.
"I didn't think that in France, the country of liberty, you could be attacked for that," she told the U.K. Standard.
