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French Court Suspends Swimsuit Ban

posted by martyb on Sunday August 28 2016, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-covering-this-story dept.

butthurt writes:

BBC News and CNN (disable CSS if page appears blank) report that the Council of State, a French administrative court, has suspended the ban on "burkini" swimsuits enacted in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet. The court has not yet decided whether the ban is legal or not. In the ruling, the court said that the ban "seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms." Several other towns have recently enacted similar bans.

The Guardian (safe for work) reported on an incident in Nice in which the ban was enforced: police appeared to make a sunbather remove part of her suit.

previously:
The French Solution - or How I Learned to Laugh More (subtitle: Cannes Bans "Burkinis" Over Suspected Link to Radical Islamism)

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  • (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:31PM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:31PM (#394177) Homepage

    n Corsica, there has been an incident were a muslim family tried to keep a smal public beach for themselves, throwing rocks at people coming close to the beach, and attacking a tourist because he took pictures of the women bathing in burkini. A row erupted with local families with about 5 injured people (including one hurt by a fishing spear gun). The mayor there is one of those who banned the outfit afterwards.

    So he had a big fight between large groups where rocks and spear guns were used and somehow the mayor decided that banning a piece of clothing was the best response?

    The mayor should have banned 'stupid'. It would not heave been an achievable goal, but at least it would be honest.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @12:36PM (#394179)

    The mayor should have banned 'stupid'. It would not heave been an achievable goal, but at least it would be honest.

    There's no need to resort to calling Islam 'stupid', all religion is stupid!

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:41PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 28 2016, @01:41PM (#394195) Journal

    Yeah, I'm sure that Muslim family would have been entirely OK with the tourists photographing their women it if those women had worn bikinis instead of burkinis. ;-)

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