The judges excluded the parents of the girl from French territory for five years. (Representative)
Paris:
Five family members of a Bosnian teenager who had forcibly shaved her head because of her relationship with a Christian Serbian man have been expelled from France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Saturday.
Sources close to Darmanin told AFP that the expelled were the parents of the girl and three of her siblings.
The parents of the 17-year-old were arrested on Friday after a court in the city of Besançon, in the east of the country, convicted them of violence against a minor.
They were sentenced to one year in prison, four of which were suspended, as were her aunt and uncle, who the girl said had actually shaved her head.
But the judges also excluded parents from French territory for five years.
While the aunt and uncle were granted refugee status, the parents were refused this status and had already to leave France voluntarily.
The girl had arrived from Bosnia and Herzegovina two years ago with her family and had a relationship for several months with a 20-year-old Serbian boyfriend, who lived in the same building.
While the families got along, her parents took her phone from her and prevented her from contacting their boy once the couple started talking about marriage.
They told him that “we are Muslims, you cannot marry a Christian,” prosecutors said after the August incident.
The court heard that the couple had fled for four days before returning to the apartment where the girl’s family lived.
She told the court the adults took her to her room where she was punched and kicked by her parents, aunt and uncle and had her head shaved.
After the young man’s parents called the police, the police took the girl to the hospital where she was found with a broken rib and bruises “all over,” prosecutors said.
the young girl will be taken care of by the French social services “and will receive a residence permit once she is of age”, declared the young minister of citizenship Marlene Schiappa.
The case aroused strong emotions in France as it recalled the punishments inflicted after the liberation of the country by World War II on thousands of women who had slept with German soldiers.
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