According to him, it all started when he was walking his dog on the banks of the Lez near the Hôtel de Région in the late morning. The animal, a dachshund, was not leashed when he approached a bench where five women were sitting, two of whom were wearing a hijab, an Islamic veil.
The young women were visibly afraid of the dog and started “screaming like crazy”, as he explained. My friends were afraid of the dog and stood on the bench,” one of the women reported.
Then there were different versions. According to one of the victims, who testified on the Twitter account Decolonial News, the man was said to have “laughed” when he saw the scene, and to have thought of it with the words “What a stupid religion”, but he did not confirm this when he was questioned.
He himself claims to have been threatened. “They screamed at me to tie the dog up and get it out of the way because it was Ramadan, otherwise they would “kill it”, he tells us, before repeating several times that they wanted to “kill the dog! “
I told them that I still had the right to walk my dog where I wanted.
The young women blamed the man for insulting them. The man defends himself and says he was told to “fuck off”, insulted in Arabic and received homophobic insults. He tried to escape the conflict and continue on his way when the women followed him.
“They started pulling out their mobile phones to videotape me, which I wanted to do in return,” he reports, speaking of “sick behaviour”. At that moment, the scene was filmed. “One jumps on me to snatch my mobile phone, I resist. He then manages to grab a smartphone before the woman throws it on the floor. In the online sequence, you can see the phone flying in the air amidst the young women’s repeated screams.
The lack of eyewitnesses makes the investigation tricky, where the two statements here contradict each other on several points. The man went to the police station on Wednesday April 13 to file a complaint for violation of the right to one’s own image. He was taken into police custody for the duration of his questioning. The public prosecutor’s office must decide later today whether to extend his detention or restore his freedom. www.midilibre.fr
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