Muslim Family Deported from France After Forcibly Shaving Daughter’s Head

The uncle and aunt of the young woman, sentenced to the same sentence, have refugee status. In addition to the conviction, the parents of the young woman and their three other children were expelled on Saturday, October 24, to Sarajevo, with a five-year ban on French territory, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in a press release.

The lawyer for the parents, Me Catherine Bresson, explained to AFP that her clients, who could not acquire political refugee status, were already about to return to their country and that "thus" they did not need Darmanin, acknowledging nevertheless that the expulsion is "legal".

During the hearing, the young woman, victim of the facts on August 17, as well as the family of her boyfriend, also present at the time of the facts, stated that the parents had taken her to her room before she was shaved by her uncle, depriving her of her beauty, denounces the lawyer for the victim, Céline Party.

The four adults denied "having beaten the young woman", as did the defense lawyers who rejected any "beating". "You are dealing with a 17-year-old girl in love who is protecting her boyfriend," defended Catherine Bresson. "This child has betrayed the truth," stressed Patrick Uzan, the uncle and aunt’s lawyer.

These statements were swept away by the young woman’s state of health, as she had broken ribs and multiple bruises that confirmed the fourteen days of temporary or total incapacity for work (ITT). Proof that led the prosecutor, Étienne Manteaux, to demand this sentence.

The 17-year-old girl will be "taken care of by child welfare and will obtain a residence permit when she comes of age," the Minister of the Interior and the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, said in the same press release.