Muslim Man Assaulted in Suspected Hate Crime in Dole, France

According to Laetitia, she noticed and saw from her kitchen the aggressor taking photos in the area while the children were playing on the terrace. That’s when her husband went out and tried to see the pictures taken by the stranger. This elderly man who becomes the aggressor of Adil seconds later, gets angry and shouts furiously: "aaah, bicot, you’re going under the hood today!", details Laeticia, who says she was shocked that her husband was insistently called "bicot".

"It shocked me. People are usually nice, they tell me ’we don’t like Arabs, but we like you’. I have a hard time being angry with them. But this time it was different, I shouted at my wife to call the police," Laeticia quotes.

Continuing the account of the facts, Laetitia affirms that the aggressor got back into his car to leave the premises. Her husband, who had held the car door open, could not prevent the aggressor from leaving in a hurry. He came back to the scene again, but this time, tried to mow down and run over Adil "the bicot" who said his aggressor came back at a slow pace behind him as he was returning on the sidewalk, but accelerated, mowing down Adil at the pedestrian crossing.