The facts arise in a sensitive context. A 26 -year -old woman filed a complaint after an attack she would have suffered on Monday, in Poissy (Yvelines), and during which her attacker “pulled her veil to her in particular,” the Yvelines prefecture announced on Tuesday.
According to the Council of Muslim Institutions of Yvelines (CIMY), the victim “was accompanied by his one year old baby and they were watered by a liquid”. In her complaint, broadcast on social networks, the young woman indicates that she was returning from Franprix, around 4.30 pm, when she was taken to play: “A person arrived behind me quickly and snatched my religious veil, while shouting on me. The victim says he has not heard of course.
An investigation is underway. The prefecture assured that “police services are fully mobilized to find the author of the facts”.
Yesterday afternoon, a 26-year-old woman said she was violently assaulted in Poissy. The attacker notably torn off his veil. The victim filed a complaint. Police services are fully mobilized to find the author of the facts.
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The Prefect of Yvelines, Frédéric Rosewho “firmly condemns this violent act,” said on the subject with the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau. An exchange held immediately after the tenant of Place Beauvau became aware of it, he who is accused to have delayed reacting after the murder of a faithful in a Gard mosque.
Muslims deplore the “ambient climate”
The prefect of the Yvelines was also to meet the representatives of the CIMY this Tuesday evening. The opportunity to discuss the security issues of the inhabitants of this confession, while the aggression occurs the day after The “against Islamophobia” march organized after the assassination Friday ofAboubakar Cissé at the Grand-Combe Mosque.
“The whole French population has discovered with amazement how far this ambient climate could bring,” the Cimy reacted Tuesday evening. Which thanked the state services in the department for “their responsiveness” and “taking into account each Islamophobic act or speech”, writes the council on X.
“The partnership with CIMY has been around for a long time and continues, recall Muslim institutions. It is in these moments of tensions and dramas that the confidence and the established relationship prove all their importance. »»
“This abject gesture is an attack on our values”
For his part, the mayor (LR) of Poissy, Sandrine Dos Santos, expressed her “more lively indignation” and her “deep solidarity with regard to the young Pisciacaise victim of an Islamophobic aggression in our city of Poissywhile she was with her baby stroller. ” The elected official said she received the representatives of the Muslim worship in her city.
“No form of hatred, racism or rejection of the other has its place. This abject gesture is an attack on our values, our common humanity, and our duty of protection, whatever its religion, its origin or its condition, “she said on X. The deputy (Renaissance) of the district, Karl Olive, also expressed his” deep indignation “in a press release. “I provide all my support to Muslim friends in our city and the territory,” he writes. Such unacceptable acts must be quickly elucidated and their author severely punished. »»
“Our compatriots, all our compatriots, whatever their religious convictions, have the right to security and the protection of the nation,” also commented on the deputy (public square) of the Yvelines, Aurélien Rousseau.
In total, 79 anti-muslim acts were identified between January and 2025, 72 % more than over the same period in 2024, according to our information. “This increase is the consequence of a work that is gradually being built with the defense association against discrimination and anti-muslim acts (Adam) and the work of the police which makes it possible to better identify anti-Muslim acts and to encourage victims to file a complaint,” explains the Ministry of the Interior.
