the government does not take up Retailleau’s proposals

François Bayrou’s government will not take up the proposals to ban the veil for school outing chaperones and university students formulated by Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, his spokesperson Sophie Primas said on Wednesday January 8. .

Minister Les Républicains (LR) himself clarified that he “this was his personal position and that this subject, probably not having a majority in Parliament, was not a subject which would be addressed by the government in the current state of the parliamentary majority”she noted during the report of the Council of Ministers at the Élysée.

Bruno Retailleau estimated Monday in the daily The Parisian that “accompanists (on school trips) do not have to be veiled”believing that the veil is “a standard for Islamism, and a marker of the inferiorization of women compared to men”.

Criticisms from the left

“School trips are school outside the walls”he insisted, calling for a change in the law. He also spoke out in favor of banning the wearing of the veil at university, in both cases attracting strong criticism from the left of the political spectrum.

Bruno Retailleau wants “prohibit Muslim women who wear (the veil) from pursuing higher education”, “exactly what the Taliban are rightly accused of”declared Insoumis MP (LFI) Antoine Léaument.