In a short statement, he took note of the court’s decision and said “it is now up to everyone to seek calm”. “I can think only of our nuns”, he told Corriere della Sera in a comment on the policy. They say burqinis are a symbol of Islam’s repression of women.
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“On an average we have between 800-900 cases of discrimination and Islamophobic hate-crime cases over the year, but just in the last couple weeks, we have received 15 different incidents on beaches”.
The White House is stepping gingerly into the burkini debate. The city of Nice, of which Estrosi was formerly mayor, outlawed the bathing suit because, he said, it “overtly manifests adherence to a religion at a time when France and places of worship are the target of terrorist attacks”.
Still, Earnest noted the USA was founded as a country where people “could observe their religious faith, and worship God without the fear of persecution or even intrusion by government authorities”.
The attempts to ban burqinis, the judges ruled, insulted “fundamental freedoms” such as the “freedom of conscience and personal liberty”.
The ruling from the Council, which both advises the executive branch and acts as supreme court for administrative justice, in effect overturns similar bans in about 30 other French towns.
It ruled that the mayor of Villeuneuve-Loubet overstepped his powers by enacting measures that are not justified by “proven risks of disruptions to public order nor, moreover, on reasons of hygiene or decency”.
Luca, also a lawmaker, said now only a law can stop troubles.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who is running again in the election in 2017, has said he will never allow burkinis to be worn if he becomes president.
Amnesty International welcomed the court’s decision.
Human rights activists argue that the law merely increased “islamophobia” in France, according to CNN.
“Invasive and discriminatory measures such as these restrict women’s choices and are an assault on their freedoms”, Dalhuisen said. This most recent ban seems to be a continuation of this fixation on Muslim women’s wardrobe and what it allegedly represents.
A man wears a placard with the message, “Burkini = Liberty” outside the Conseil d’Etat after France’s highest administrative court suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling, in Paris, France, August 26, 2016. The Council of State will have the final say on the matter.
“These ordinances are not legitimate, they violate freedoms and must be withdrawn”, he said.
The laws, which was brought in by the commune of Villeneuve-Loubet, was specifically examined by the State Court.
CCTV’s reporter Greg Navarro interviewed the Australian inventor of the full-body Burkini swimsuit, Aheda Zanetti, who told us that she’s shocked by the controversy surrounding her design. It took days to untangle the events leading to the violence that many immediately assumed was over a burkini sighting.
After a month of intense national scandal and heightened global outrage, France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, on Friday overturned the burkini ban in a coastal area of the south of France.
Patrice Spinosi, an attorney for the LDF, said, “The council has ruled and has showed that mayors do not have the right to set limits on wearing religious signs in public spaces”.
From a human rights perspective, France had to suspend the ban.
Many officials – including Prime Minister Manuel Valls – have argued burkinis oppress women.
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The office of Nice’s mayor denied that the woman had been forced to remove her clothing, saying that she was showing police the swimsuit she was wearing under her top, over a pair of leggings, when the picture was taken.
