Sunday, August 21, 2016

Nice becomes latest French city to ban burkinis...

Nice has become the latest French seaside resort to ban the burkini, the body-concealing swimsuit associated with Islamic values that has sparked heated debate in France, city officials said on Friday.

Using language similar to bans imposed in a string of other towns on the French Riviera, the city barred apparel that "overtly manifests adherence to a religion at a time when France and places of worship are the target of terrorist attacks".

The wording of the ban in Nice refers specifically to last month's Bastille Day truck attack in the city that claimed 86 lives as well as the murder of a Catholic priest near the northern city of Rouen 12 days later.

Fifteen towns in the southeast, as well as others elsewhere in France, have already banned the burkini, including nearby film festival host city Cannes, where three Muslim women were each fined 38 euros ($43) under the new rule at the weekend.

Nice's deputy mayor Christian Estrosi, from the centre-right Republicans party, wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday that "hiding the face or wearing a full-body costume to go to the beach is not in keeping with our ideal of social relations". Full story...

Related posts:
  1. French PM supports burqini ban as more towns join in...
  2. French minister compares veil wearers to 'negroes who accepted slavery'
  3. It’s a French woman’s duty to wear a bikini, says ex-minister...
  4. Swimming pool windows blacked out 'to protect Muslim women's modesty!!!'
  5. Burqini banned in Italian town...
  6. Muslim man in Switzerland jailed for banning daughter from swimming lessons...

No comments:

Post a Comment