In October 2020 on the Champ de Mars in Paris, two Muslim women were physically attacked and stabbed several times by two women who also insulted them: “Dirty Arabs”, “You’re not at home here”.

The victims were hospitalized and the two suspects placed in police custody for “racially motivated intentional violence”, a charge that was revised by the investigating judges in the summer of 2021 at the request of one of the victims’ lawyers, Arié Alimi, to “attempted murder on account of the victim’s belonging to a race or religion”.

On September 23, an examining magistrate in Paris ordered that the defendants be referred to the assizes court, where they face life imprisonment.

The Collectif contre l’islamophobie en Europe (CCIE) has filed a civil suit in this case.