Ban on the abaya at school: the government is trying to close a sensitive file

2023-08-28 04:57:53

It will therefore be no, everywhere in France. By prohibiting, one week before the start of the school year, the wearing of the abaya, this traditional dress from the Middle East, the new Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, is showing the color: he will be firm on the sensitive issue of laicity. “I’m going to talk this week with the heads of establishments, but we can no longer wear the abaya at school,” he announced this Sunday to the TF1 newspaper. I will give them all the keys so that they can apply this rule which seems necessary to me. »