A horse trainer has been jailed for three months for cursing Islam and Muslims, assaulting and threatening residency and police officers and behaving rowdily at the airport while she was intoxicated.
The 33-year-old French woman trainer was said to be very drunk when she bypassed a long queue at the residency counter and urged an officer to finish her entry procedures quickly in March at Dubai International Airport.
Prosecution records said the French woman cursed the residency officer in public and verbally threatened him. Then she cursed the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs. She was also accused of assaulting a policewoman and made offensive remarks to her for being a Muslim in public. The horse trainer was additionally charged with cursing Islam and Muslims by calling them names and shoving her middle finger in the face of the policewoman. The defendant was charged with consuming three glasses of vodka.
When she appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court, she denied all her accusations but admitted that she was drunk when the incident took place.
She pleaded not guilty contending that she did not remember what happened or how she behaved.
The court sentenced the French woman to three months in jail and fined her Dh7,000.
According to the primary ruling, she will be deported following the completion of her punishment.
Meanwhile her lawyer argued in court that her client was not familiar with the country's laws and asked the presiding judge to acquit her or grant her a lenient punishment.
The residency officer testified to prosecutors that the defendant avoided the queue and pounded her passport noisily on his counter before asking him to finish her entry procedures quickly.
-Immediately I asked her to wait in the queue. She yelled at me and used the f*** word. I could not convince to calm down, so I closed the counter and asked her to escort me to an office. She pointed her finger at my chest in a threatening manner and said she worked for shaikhs and that I would be in trouble. Then she acted rowdily inside the office and threw the papers and stationery to the floor. When my workmate tried to calm her down, she cursed the Department. Then we informed the airport's police office,- claimed the officer.
Meanwhile a policewoman claimed to prosecutors that she and her colleague failed to convince the French woman to rein in her behaviour.
-The breathalyser test confirmed that she was drunk. She cursed me and my colleague. She also cursed Islam and Muslims and called us dogs. She slapped me and scratched my face with her nails and tried to remove my headscarf when we tried to put her in detention,- claimed the policewoman.
The defendant admitted during prosecution questioning that she was drunk and denied cursing Muslims or Islam, contending that she did not remember how she acted.
She alleged that she wanted to finish her entry procedures quickly in order to catch up with her friends.
The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within one week.
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