"The veiled girl was in tears and could hardly speak," the woman behind the video told BuzzFeed News.

In the last few weeks, a handful of mayors in Southern France have banned the "burkini" — a form of swimwear popular with Muslim women.

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The center-right mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, banned burkinis earlier this month with a ruling that stated: "Access to beaches and for swimming is banned to anyone who does not have [bathing apparel] which respects good customs and secularism."

"Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order which it is necessary to prevent," the ruling stated.

The video, which was posted by Feiza Ben Mohamed, the spokesperson for the federation of Muslims of the South, shows a woman wearing a hijab come out of the water and walk towards the police waiting on the beach.

The video, which was posted by Feiza Ben Mohamed, the spokesperson for the federation of Muslims of the South, shows a woman wearing a hijab come out of the water and walk towards the police waiting on the beach.