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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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French Court Suspends Swimsuit Ban
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @03:43PM
That way there would be no racism or religious freedom problems. Not sure how the problem of beached whales would be handled though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:24AM
Beached wales can either be pushed into the sea, or shot with a harpoon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:43AM
Or used as a Lard substitute for those people who don't eat pork.