GEORGIA DIEBELIUS
France’s controversial burkini ban has made headlines constantly over the last week after police were seen making a woman remove her outfit.
But what would you do if it was happening in front of you?
Three actors decided to put it to the test, with one posing as a bather and the second as a policeman – all while the third recorded it on secret cameras.
And although at first many ignore the scene, the end results are surprising – with only black and Asian women stepping in to help out.
At the beginning of the clip, actress Amina can be seen sat on a towel on Southend-on-Sea beach in Essex, but she is soon approached by ‘policeman’, Light.
Light, the second actor, instructs the woman to “stand up” before adding “take it off, take the outfit off, you are not allowed to wear this at the beach, you look like a terrorist.”
However, it isn’t until the verbal argument becomes physical and the officer reaches for the top of the burkini, that members of the public get involved.
Two furious women approach the actors and begin to shout at Light in the video which was uploaded by Trollstation to YouTube .
One shouts: “You can’t do that. It’s religious. She is a person, you cannot discriminate her against her religion.”
In under a minute more than 20 people are surrounding the pair and shouting at the ‘policeman’.
However it soon becomes apparent that only black and Asian women have stepped up to confront the man.
Just two minutes in, the actor calls off the experiment and explains to the crowd that the scene was “part of a social experiment”.
When asked by cameraman Maz why he stopped the scene so soon, Light explained that he was “worried and people’s reactions were getting on top of him”.
Speaking at the end of clip, one woman said: “My heart is still beating. I was so angry, I think I’m so going to cry.”
Another said: “I was mad. I was so mad.”
Courtesy: Mirror
