Two Muslim men attacked a couple in at the Le Mix Bar in Douai, France after noticing ham on their pizza.
Youness Boussaid and Fatah Bouzid, both 27, approached their victims and offered them cocaine. But when the two Arab men noticed ham on the couple’s pizza they told them they would “go to hell” for eating it.
The attackers caressed the woman’s blonde hair before forcing their fingers into her nose, causing her to lose consciousness and fall to the ground. They then began to beat her male friend before security staff from Le Mix Bar intervened. The attackers escaped the scene but after a police investigation the registration from the car they used led to their arrest.
The men were identified by the pizza chef, the victims and a further witness, but still denied the charges. Both men were ordered to pay £1,200 in compensation each and were jailed for six months.
In June, a Muslim waitress in a cafe in central Nice, France, filed a police complaint after she was allegedly assaulted by two men because she refused to “stop serving alcohol” on the first day of the holy month of Ramazan. The waitress said one of the two men then shouted, “If I was God, I would have hung you.”
In the same Nice neighbourhood, three men were given suspended sentences for repeatedly threatening, then physically assaulting, a Muslim baker they accused of being un-Islamic for serving ham sandwiches and alcohol at his shop.
Tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims are high in France where the recent burkini ban has caused outraged among many. Far-right groups point toward the growing problem of the Muslim minority holding non-Muslims and their lifestyles in contempt. Recently, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls suggested that naked breasts were more representative of the country than a headscarf, highlighting this clash.