Man Attacked in Lyon, France for Eating During Daylight Hours in Month of Ramadan

News Agencies – August 24, 2010
A man of Senegalese-origin from Vénissieux was eating breakfast on the terrace of a restaurant in the center of Lyon on the weekend of August 15th when three youth jumped him because he didn’t observe the fast of Ramadan. He was hit on the head with a glass bottle, and then beaten with a chair. Rushed to the hospital with a fracture to the back of his head, the victim was operated on. The Lyon police has opened a preliminary investigation.

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