Five people have been injured in riots in Corsica, which ensued after “bathers of North African origin” allegedly attacked a tourist taking a photo of a Muslim woman in a Burkini, or full-body swimsuit, on a public beach.
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Corsica burkini ban – The mayor of a town in Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean, has banned the Burkini on the beaches of the town.
Vivoni said on France-Info radio Monday that the ban in his town of Sisco is aimed at calming religious tensions and protecting Muslims. “There is the idea that naturally women are immodest, impure, that they should be totally covered”.
Sisco is the third French town to ban the burkini, after authorities in Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet, two tourist hot spots on the French Riviera, also ordered for them to stop being warn.
Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Wednesday that he regarded French restrictions on Islamic clothing as counter-productive because of the potential backlash it could provoke. He has banned the full body suit worn by Muslim women on the beach for sanitary reasons.
“The burkini is. a particular vision of the place of the woman”.
Michel Py, the mayor Leucate, was preparing to sign a municipal decree on Tuesday to bar access to public beaches to “any person who is not properly dressed, respectful of moral behaviour and secularis, hygiene and bathing safety”.
In fact, it would be challenging to spot a burkini on most French beaches, and even some of the mayors considering the bans admit to never having seen one.
Tensions in France are heightened after the massacre of 85 people when a Tunisian plowed a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on July 14 on the seafront at Nice. He further said “the Republic must defend itself” against any provocations.
“The burqini is not a new range of swimwear, a fashion”.
To the Prime Minister, which is expressed in Provence, the burkini “is the translation of a political project of against-company, based in particular on women’s subjugation”. “We are living on a powder keg”, he said.
Thirty of his victims were Muslims, and the first to die was a grandmother of seven who regularly wore a veil.
Pointing out that France’s Muslims are also French, he added: “One does not have to dictate to people – whatever we think of burkinis – how they have to dress”.
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This past weekend, a large fight broke out on the French island of Corsica between a North African family and local youths.
