{"id":22497,"date":"2015-07-07T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:15:08","slug":"france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> attack<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A French swimmer has suffered a broken nose in an anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> attack that&nbsp;forced her to withdraw from a major competition.<\/p>\n<p>M&eacute;lanie H&eacute;nique, 23, and two <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> friends were approached&nbsp;by four <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> as they left a restaurant in Amiens, northern France on 26 June.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;They asked us for cigarettes but I felt it was not for that,&rsquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;We were going to leave but they started insulting us and everything&nbsp;happened&nbsp;very quickly. One of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> has blocked us, I did not see it coming, the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> hit me, I was completely stunned, I do not know what happened after I saw my friends on the floor. After, we went to emergencies.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>H&eacute;nique said she &lsquo;fully accepts&rsquo; her&nbsp;homosexuality but preferred&nbsp;to keep her private life private.<\/p>\n<p>However, she felt it was her&nbsp;duty to make public the facts, &lsquo;if only to help all those who dare not complain. It happens too often.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;I have been insulted, but have never been hit,&rsquo; she continued, without wanting to specify the &lsquo;violent&rsquo; homophobic slurs.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;There was a lot of hatred. Psychologically, it is a shock, I did not expect it at all,&rsquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;I went complaint Friday (3 July) in Amiens, where it happened. It was important to go to complain. It is a serious act, homophobic, it is unacceptable, it must be punished.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>H&eacute;nique had&nbsp;to postpone training for 10 days after&nbsp;the attack and was a forced to withdraw from the French Open over the&nbsp;weekend.<\/p>\n<p>She&nbsp;won bronze in the 50m butterfly at the world championships in 2011 and has been selected to compete again at the 2014 world championships in Kazan, Russia in August.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/\">France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/\">Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Wee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> attack A French swimmer has suffered a broken nose in an anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> attack that&nbsp;forced her to withdraw from a major competition. M&eacute;lanie H&eacute;nique, 23, and two <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> friends were approached&nbsp;by four <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> as they left a restaurant in Amiens, northern France on 26 June. &lsquo;They asked us for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/france-swimmer-suffers-broken-nose-in-anti-gay-attack\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"France swimmer suffers broken nose in anti-gay attack A French swimmer has suffered a broken nose in an anti-gay attack that&nbsp;forced her to withdraw from a major competition. 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