2023-08-28 01:32:00
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The French government will prohibit female students in primary and secondary schools from wearing abayas, tunics commonly used in North African and Arab countries, Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced today.
“It will no longer be possible to wear the abaya at school,” Attal said. during an interview with TF1 television, in which he considered that this dress violates the strict rules of secularism in French education.
The abaya covers the entire body, except the face, hands and feet.. The use of this garment by adolescents had generated controversy in France, especially due to criticism from the right and the extreme right.
“When you enter a class, you should not be able to identify the religion of the students by looking at them,” toadded the minister.
The deputy and president of the opposition party Los Republicanos (right) Éric Ciotti “congratulated himself” on this decision. “He proves us right,” he asserted.
While, The deputy of the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) force Clémentine Autain said that the measure is “unconstitutional” and criticized the “clothing policy”.
Although the French Council of Muslim Cult (CFCM) considers that it does not represent an Islamic symbol, the Ministry of Education had already published a circular last year in which it authorized schools to prohibit this item of clothing, as well as bandanas and scarves. very long skirts
“That slogan was not clear, now it is and we congratulate ourselves on it,” Bruno Bobkiewicz, Secretary General of the National Union of National Education Managers, told the AFP news agency.
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