The coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard announced Tuesday his intention to seize the Council of State to attack the “cruel” decision of the Minister of National Education to ban the wearing of the abaya in schools. “I will propose to our parliamentary group to attack the Council of State this regulation because I think that it will be contrary to the Constitution, that in my opinion it is dangerous, it is cruel”, declared on France 2 the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône.
According to him, this ban will “result in, once again, discrimination against young women and in particular young women of the Muslim faith and I think that we do not need that in our country”. .
The abaya, a long traditional dress covering the body, which the government has decided to ban at school by promising “clear rules at the national level”, is the new symbol of friction on the left, elected officials of the PS and the PCF approving its ban at school, in particular in the name of the principle of secularism, LFI denouncing an Islamophobic decision and environmentalists a “stigma”.
