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Moroccan woman beaten up in Spain for not wearing a veil
By h.b. - Nov 7, 2009 - 11:24 AM
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The entrance to the school where the agression took place - EFE
Two men, also Moroccan, have been arrested in the town in Ciudad Real
A 38 year old Moroccan woman who has been living in Spain for ten years was set upon two weeks ago by a Moroccan couple for not wearing a veil. As they attacked her they shouted that she should be in a puticlub whorehouse.
It happened as Saadia Hakim was taking her three year old son to school in El Coso de Socuéllamos in Ciudad Real. She was pregnant and nine days later lost her baby from what witnesses and the Guardia Civil described as a ‘brutal beating’.
Her husband was away on business in Morocco at the time and is now back in Spain. He is trying to play down in the attack, saying the lack of a veil was not the motive for the attack, and the family says that Saadia wants to forgive her aggressors, as they have pleaded for her to do.
Two Moroccan men have meanwhile been arrested in connection with the attack.