Two Muslim women were stabbed in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, after they were insulted by female racists and told them to remove their face veils, according to eyewitnesses on Wednesday.
They added that the two women were stabbed in front of their children after getting into an argument with the assailants who insulted them for wearing a veil, saying "Dirty Arabs".
The French police later arrested two female suspects following the racist attack which came amid outrage at the beheading of a French teacher.
On his part, the city prosecutors said that the two suspected women, described as being white women of "European appearance", were placed in custody and now face attempted murder charges.
With regard to the two victims, Kenza and Amel, they were stabbed multiple times on Sunday evening and hospitalized with severe injuries.
Photos of the chilling attack were widely circulated on social media days after the event, prompting criticism of the French's media "silence" over the attempted killing of the two women.
"People are so quick to wrongly link Islam to the monster who murdered a teacher earlier this week - yet acts of violence committed against REAL Muslims are being ignored. AJ journalist Rym Bendimerad said in a tweet on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/MuftiWahidSdy/status/1318837971911520256
The attack came just hours after tens of thousands of protesters took part in marches across France in support of free speech in the wake of the beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty.
Following the brutal beheading of a history teacher, France conducted dozens of raids, shuttered a mosque and a few associations they say have connections to radical Islam.
During the meeting of an Iner-agency crisis group set up to fight radical Islam in the Paris area, French President Emmanuel Macron said that more measures need to taken to address a national yearning to stamp out extremism.
“We stepped up actions over recent days,” Macron said.
“It’s not about making new statements,” he added, “we know what we need to do.”
Moreover, the French president announced that on Wednesday the Cabinet will dissolve a pro-Hamas organization known as “Cheikh Yassine”, which he said was “directly involved” in the gruesome assassination of Samuel Paty, the eighth-grade teacher who was killed after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed during a class discussion on freedom of speech.
The killer, identified as Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by French police shortly after the attack.
According to French media reports, 11 people, including four members of the attacker’s family, have been detained as part of the ongoing investigation.
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