Woman fined for wearing full-face veil

STOCKHOLM: A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face veils in public places.

Police were called to a shopping centre in Horsholm, where the woman had scuffled with another woman, who had tried to tear her niqab off, police officer David Borchersen told the Ritzau news agency.

“During the fight her niqab came off, but by the time we arrived she had put it back on again,” said Borchersen.

Police took a photograph of the woman wearing the niqab and obtained security camera footage from the shopping centre.

The woman was informed she would receive a fine of 1,000 kroner (RM624) in the post, and was told to either remove her veil or leave the public space.

“She chose the latter,” said Borchersen.