Defying a ban, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing the abaya on the first day of the new school year. 67 of them refused to remove it and were sent home.
Attal said the girls refused entry were given a letter addressed to their families saying that"secularism is not a constraint, it is a liberty".
If they showed up at school again wearing the dress there would be a"new dialogue", the minister said. Late Monday, President Emmanuel Macron defended the controversial measure, saying there was a"minority" in France who"hijack a religion and challenge the republic and secularism", leading to the"worst consequences" such as the murder three years ago of teacher Samuel Paty for showing Mohamed caricatures during a civics education class.
"We cannot act as if the terrorist attack, the murder of Samuel Paty, had not happened," he said in an interview with You Tube channel HugoDecrypte. An association representing Muslims has filed a motion with the State Council, France's highest court for complaints against state authorities, for an injunction against the ban on the abaya and the qamis, its equivalent dress for men.A law introduced in March 2004 banned"the wearing of signs or outfits by which students ostensibly show a religious affiliation" in schools.
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