Henri Leroy, the mayor of Mandelieu-La-Napoule, told MailOnline that he had extended the ban until the end of September, saying that the Muslim residents of the town should be reminded that “they are French first and of Muslim confession second”.
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You don’t need to be following the frothing mess that is France’s burkini ban-and the recent suspension of said ban-to know that tensions between France’s sizable Muslim population and the secularist majority is at an all-time high.
Cazeneuve lashed out the opposition for trying to earn political points from the burkini controversy at a time when the country has been rattled by a string of deadly attacks claimed by Daesh (the so-called IS) militants.
He said the rule is a “grave and illegal breach of fundamental freedoms”, and noted that the agency is calling for all other burkini bans to be repealed.
A French high court has struck down on French town’s ban on the burkini, effectively invalidating such bans in about 30 towns, though many remain.
The ruling, which applied to the ban imposed by the town of Villeneuve-Loubet, canceled orders issued by lower-court judges in Nice and represented an immediate suspension of the restriction which was operating in 26 separate localities.
The government also previously banned Muslim headscarves and other “conspicuous” religious symbols in French schools in February 2004. The man responds; “Racists don’t kill people”.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who plans to run again for the nation’s top job, have supported the bans.
“By overturning a discriminatory ban that is fueled by and is fueling prejudice and intolerance, today’s decision has drawn an important line in the sand”, Dalhuisen said in a statement Friday.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve met with senior Muslim representatives and agreed that efforts to foster good relations will include the creation of an Islamic foundation, funded exclusively with money from within France. Ben Mohamed also tweeted footage of a Nice police boat approaching a veiled woman wading in the shallows and apparently ordering her out of the water.
It reads that mayor can not ‘without exceeding police powers, enact measures that prohibit access to the beach and swimming, as they are not based on proven risks of disturbances to public order, nor reasons of hygiene or decency’.
It would be “unconstitutional” for France to pass a law banning the burkini and such a move could cause irreparable harm, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned in an interview published online late Sunday.
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Though France has been the sight of terror attacks during the summer of 2016, owners of public establishments do not have the right to deny access to Muslim individuals.
