Stripping Claimed
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) LONDON, June 1. A 25-year-old blonde British secretary flew back to London on Tuesday protesting that she had been "degraded and physically manhandled” by Italian police on Monday, the “Daily Express” reported. Miss Norma Forster travelled to Rome with three other members of the “Keep Britain out of the Common Market” organisation. They claimed that to prevent their demonstrating outside the building where the Common Market meeting was being held they were forcibly bundled into a van and “brutally” treated in a police station. Wearing a striped miniskirt pretty Miss Forster said: “I was frisked by policemen, who ran their hands up and down my body, ostensibly searching me. “They all had guns stuck in their belts.” Later, she claimed, she was taken into a room away from her companions and stripped by three policewomen. Italian police have denied that they stripped Miss Forster. A police spokesman said: “The whole thing is a pure fabrication.” He added with a laugh: “The girl was wearing the briefest of mini-skirts. It really wouldn’t have been necessary to strip her.”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31385, 2 June 1967, Page 12
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