Two men in burqas attacked a French post office last week, making off with 4500 euros.
About twenty clients were waiting when the robbers gained entrance to the post office in a "quartier sensible" (slum) of Atis Mons in Essonne. The post office employee let them in thinking they were women. Once inside, they uncovered their faces, demanded the money, then sped away on foot (in tennis shoes) towards a parking lot and disappeared.
Whatever the outcome of the burqa debate, it is generally considered illegal to rob post offices in France.
