2023-09-25 10:02:00
The message remains firm. Guest on the set of Sunday in politics on France 3, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra recalled the position of the International Olympic Committee regarding the wearing of the veil during the Paris Olympic Games in the summer of 2024. “The IOC, which governs the rules of participation, is on a logic which consists of understanding the wearing of the veil not as a religious factor but as a cultural factor. It is based on the provisions of the International Federations, which are not all the same in manner. There will be heterogeneity between sports,” explained the Minister of Sports.
As for the French position on the subject, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra maintains her “attachment to a strict regime of secularism”. “This means the prohibition of any form of proselytism, the absolute neutrality of public service. The representatives of our delegations in our French teams will not wear the veil. »
“Les Hijabeuses” as a precedent
In the case of football, the Minister of Sports confirmed that wearing the veil would remain prohibited “during competitions, during matches”, in line with the Council of State’s announcement last June. He had maintained the ban on the veil in official competitions in France, taking the opposite approach to the appeal of the collective of Muslim women, “les Hijabeuses”, against the French Football Federation (FFF). For more than a decade, Fifa has withdrawn its ban on wearing the veil, allowing Moroccan Nouhaila Benzina to become the first veiled player to play in a World Cup this summer during the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
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