France: Council of State suspended the ban burkini on the beaches – Virtual Poland

• The Council of State, France, suspended the ban on wearing the burkini beach

 • Such a ban has been introduced by one of the resorts on the Cote d’Azur

 • pendant remain in force until a final judgment

 • The Council of State is the supreme organ of administrative justice in France
 

Council of State, which is the highest organ of administrative justice in France, suspended introduced by one of the resorts on the Cote d’Azur burkini ban on wearing on the beach. The suspension is in force until the final judgment. The decision concerns a ban by the authorities of the town of Villeneuve-Loubet on the Mediterranean Sea, but a similar step decided in France around 30 resorts, which provoked a lively debate in the country and abroad, and even divisions within the government.

The Council of State ruled that any such prohibition must be justified only “evidenced threat” to public order, and therefore must relate to “appropriate access to the coast, bath safety, hygiene and decency.” This means that you can not prohibit burkini guided by the secular nature of the French Republic or the assertion that the garment covering almost the entire body is the symbol of the enslavement of women in Islam.
 

 French Council of the Muslim Confessions welcomed the verdict, describing it as a “common-sense decision” and “the victory of law and wisdom.”
 

The case relating worn by Muslim women swimsuit went to the court at the request of the League of Human Rights, according to which the ban violates basic civil liberties. “The decision will set a precedent – said the lawyer, Patrice Spinosi, representing the League of Human Rights. – Prohibition was a disproportionate attack on freedom of religion, and the mayor had no right to the limit.”
 

The prohibitions issued by the mayors do not speak directly about burkini, but require the beaches costumes “appropriate and consistent with morality and secularism”.
 

 Provisions criticized the two ladies minister of the socialist government: education and health, warning of “stigma, which threatens the cohesion of the country.” Thus they took a position contrary to the opinion of Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who burkini sees “political character of religious proselytism, which closes woman”.
 

On Wednesday, a potential candidate right in presidential elections in 2017. Nicolas Sarkozy called burkini provocation and called for a statutory ban on wearing religious symbols in enterprises, offices and universities. The far-right National Front went further, calling for a total ban on the public wearing the Muslim headscarf covering her hair.
 

France was the first country in Europe, which in 2010 banned the public wearing of Muslim clothing covering the entire body, with only a slit for the eyes, or grid (niqab, burka). During the first five years, more than 1.5 thousand. women got behind it mandates.
 

On the other hand, since 2004. In the public schools to senior high school, including prohibited it is “an outward manifestation of religious affiliation,” which means not only non-Muslim headscarves, but also visible crosses or yarmulkes. The principle of secular education is enshrined in the French constitution and is getting more votes to extend it to higher education. Similarly regularly returns unresolved in the provisions of the matter of headscarves worn by Muslim women in companies – some entrepreneurs decided to prohibit them.
 

The name is derived from the intersection burkini words burqa and bikini.