Brussels: Chief of Protocol strips a Qatari princess of her Niqab

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Fez- Qatar and Belgium are on the brink of diplomatic tensions after the Chief of Protocol of the city of Brussels was reported to forcibly removing the Niqab of a woman who happened to be a Qatari princess (Sheikhah) travelling to the Belgian capital. It all happened Last Thursday when the Qatari princess was making her way to the famous Grand Place in the center of Brussels with two other women. The three women had to ask someone with good knowledge of the city and they couldn’t be any luckier when thy addressed Jean-Marie Pire, the Chief Protocol of the City of Brussels himself. According to media reports, Jean-Marie Pire, who was not in duty at the time of the incident, refused to answer their question. In addition, he jumped in to tear the Niqab off the woman’s face, but little did he know that he had just stripped a Qatari princess of her Niqab in the center of Brussels. ‘I said I don’t talk to anyone if I can’t see their face, the 60-year-old said’. ‘With this reply, I wanted to make it clear that the veil is banned in Belgium.” “Because the person asking me a question didn’t seem to hear me, I lifted her veil. I know I shouldn’t have done that, but what she did wasn’t legal either,” he added. The Qatari princess filed a complaint in the court in Brussels against the Chief of Protocol for assault because her earrings were torn off in the process causing cuts and bruises. The Chief of Protocol of the city of Brussels also filed a counter complaint against the alleged princess on the grounds that she was wearing the Niqab, which is prohibited by law in Belgium. Other reports suggest that Jean-Marie le Pire was intoxicated at the time of the incident, something he denied categorically saying it was ‘three o’clock in the afternoon, besides I don’t drink much.”