French Muslim woman, Sandrine Mouleres, fined on April 2010 for driving while wearing a full-face veil, arriving at the police court with her lawyer Jean-Michel Pollonoon, yesterday in Nantes, western France. Police stopped the woman and fined her €22 on the grounds that her niqab - an Islamic veil with a slit for the eyes - restricted her view so she could not drive safely.

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