A Muslim waitress in a cafe in central France has 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 Ramzan.
The waitress, a French 30-year-old of Tunisian origin, was serving drinks on the terrace of the Vitis Café on Nice’s rue Lamartine when two men started beating her because she was serving alcohol to customers.
“I was all alone in the bar when two passers-by suddenly appeared. They pointed to the bottles of alcohol behind the bar, then one of them told me in Arabic: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself serving alcohol in the Ramzan period’,” she recalled.
The waitress said one of the two men then shouted, “If I was God, I would have hung you.”
Despite his threatening behaviour, the waitress shot back: “You’re not God to judge me.”
The men responded by abusing her and left the cafe in haste. However, the venue’s CCTV footage reportedly shows the two men turn around abruptly and one of them rushing towards the waitress to violently slap her in the face, knocking her to the floor.
After the incident, the waitress didn’t phone the police but contacted the Owner of the bar who persuaded her to file a legal complaint.
“The whole scene was recorded by the security cameras that I transferred to the police,” says the Bar’s Owner, Nacim.
The two men have reportedly been identified. One of them is known to be an illegal migrant who is a threatening figure in the district, however, neither of the men have been arrested so far.