The Council of State validated on Thursday the ban on the wearing of the abaya at school, rejecting the appeal of an association which requested its suspension, announced the high administrative court in a press release. Wearing the abaya “is part of a logic of religious affirmation”, estimated the judge in summary proceedings, who had been referred urgently by the association Action Droits des Musulmans (ADM).
Accordingly, its prohibition “does not constitute a serious and manifestly unlawful interference with the right to respect for private life, freedom of worship, the right to education and respect for the best interests of the child or principle of non-discrimination,” he said.
However, “the law prohibits, within public educational establishments, the wearing by students of signs or outfits conspicuously manifesting, either by themselves or because of the behavior of the student, membership in a religion,” recalls the jurisdiction.