Rather discreet lately, Gabriel Attal returns to the front. A few hours before the publication of a report dedicated to the Muslim Brotherhood that reports a “threat to national cohesion”, the former prime minister proposed on Tuesday, May 20 to ban the veil in public space for children under 15 years.
The measure bothered the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella. “Trying desperately to be spoken and there is worth a few reversals at 180 degrees,” Jordan Bardella judged on the social network X sharing the video of a program D April 22, 2022, in the middle of the presidential campaign.
“If Marine Le Pen is elected, her priority, it is not the values of the Republic that will be defended,” said TV Gabriel Attal then government spokesman.
“Because their priority is to ask the police to chase women who use the veil to eliminate or verbalize them,” he continued.
The veil for girls, “is not a free and illuminated decision”
In 2021, in the midst of a bill against separatism, the RN proposed the prohibition in “the public space of the signs or the components teams an unequivocal and ostentatious statement” of “Islamist ideologies”. It was to this extent that the macronist attacked Jordan Bardella.
But the television sequence was not specifically related to the prohibition of the veil for young women but in their port throughout society. Arrested in the National Assembly, which became president of Renissance in autumn after his departure as Murignon, defended himself from any change.
“A woman who decides to use the veil freely is her decision,” he insisted Gabriel Attal this Wednesday afternoon, ensuring not “mixing Islam compatible with the values of the Republic and Islamism.”
“But what is the freedom of a girl who takes him to 5 or 6 years? We are not going to say that she made this decision freely and illuminated,” said the former prime minister.
A phenomenon “present in the territory”
In this report, which explains how Islam is trying to infiltrate “low noise” by sports or cultural associations, we can read that the “presence of evening girls” was observed in particular in an leisure center in the Nièvre.
Without “being an endemic phenomenon, the phenomenon of the veil of minors sometimes 5 to 6 years seems to be well present in the French territory.”
At the time t, there is no age limit to use the veil in public space in France. But since the 2004 law, “the use of signs or outfits by which students apparently demonstrate religious affiliation have been prohibited” in “schools, schools and public secondary schools.”
A part of the already existing
When he was Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal had ratified at the beginning of the 2023 school year the prohibition of abayas, these long and wide dresses assimilated to a traditional outfit of the Muslim religion.
In the announcement of the report on the Muslim Brotherhood, the deputy of Hauts-De-Seine also proposed the creation of a crime of restriction of the use of the veil against the parents who would force their daughter.
The measure, however, has existed since 2010. The Criminal Code indicates that “anyone who imposes” another person to hide their faces for threat, violence, restriction, abuse of authority or abuse of power, due to their gender, is punishable with one year in prison and a fine of € 30,000.
“When the fact is committed to the prejudice of a minor, the sanctions are presented to two years in prison and a fine of € 60,000,” the law said.
Source: BFM TV
