A French Muslim woman has been charged with assault and inciting a riot in Lille after she refused a police identification check while wearing a banned full- face veil, a police source reported.
When police tried to take her to the station, she allegedly grabbed hold of a vehicle and started kicking, punching and screaming, the source added.
She allegedly tried to bite police and scratched one of them before being taken into custody. None of the officers were hurt.
The 18-year-old will appear in the court charged with assault, insulting police and inciting a riot for refusing to provide identification.
In a similar incident on July 24, three officers in the southern city of Marseille sustained minor injuries after they stopped a fully veiled woman near a mosque.
The woman, two men and a minor are due in court over the alleged assault.
The interior ministry reported that since Nicolas Sarkozy's government passed a controversial law banning wearing niqab and burka in all public spaces there have been 91 incidents of women in niqabs being stopped by police outside Paris and nine incidents in the Paris region.
The law bans wearing full-face veils in all public spaces, allowing women to wear full-face veils only in their homes, in private vehicle and places of worship.
If women are found wearing full-face veils, they face a 150 euro (£130) fine.
The law sparked the debates across France, the country with the biggest Muslim population in Europe.
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