French police fine woman for wearing veil

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VERSAILLES – French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said Tuesday. The young woman, born in 1983, was fined 150 euros (216 dollars) “without incident” in a shopping centre in Mureaux, northwest of Paris, early Monday evening, the source said.