French Muslim jailed for punching nurse who tried to remove wife's burqa during child birth

Veiled: Nassim Mimoune was jailed for punching a nurse who removed his wife's burqa. (Stock image)

A Muslim man who punched a nurse for trying to remove his wife's burqa during childbirth has been jailed in France.


Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding the midwife a 'rapist' as she carried out an intimate examination of his wife.

Then through a window he spotted the nurse taking off his wife's burqa as she prepared to give birth.

He smashed open the locked door and hit the woman in the face, demanding she replace the full Islamic face veil.

As his wife delivered a baby boy, Mimoune was ejected from the building by security men from the hospital in Marseille and arrested for assault.

A judge in the southern French port jailed Mimoune for six months on Wednesday, telling him: 'Your religious values are not superior to the laws of the republic.'