French man convicted of veil assault

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The man vainly tried to justify the attack as an attempt to uphold a controversial law banning women from wearing face-covering veils in public.

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A Frenchman who ripped a Muslim woman's veil off her face as she strolled in a fairground was Wednesday given a five-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to compensate his victim, reports AFP.