Actress Leïla Bekhti has decided to react to the controversy surrounding the wearing of the veil in France. In an open letter posted on her Instagram account, she calls for the spread of living together.
While he is being prosecuted for "public insults" and "public incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence", following the full and live broadcast on September 28 of his speech on LCI, Eric Zemmour is seeing his situation become more complicated. Indeed, it is the turn of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) to transmit to the Public Prosecutor new "elements in its possession".
At the heart of the debate on the veil that is agitating France, 100 local elected officials from various political backgrounds are alerting against the risk of creating a "society of suspicion", "by too much pointing the finger at a community of believers", the Muslims, and therefore of dividing society. For them, France is getting bogged down in stirring up the specter of division. A rally against Islamophobia was also held on Saturday in Paris.
In a socio-political climate where the Muslim community is stigmatized in France, the Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF) is not giving up. On the contrary, despite the accusations of "communitarianism" that it faces, the party, which boasts of its non-negligible score in the European elections, plans to present around fifty candidates in the municipal elections next March.
"French, Muslim and veiled, if I bother you, I invite you to leave my country." In response to this post, a municipal employee in Meaux called to "cut off her head". The remarks of this employee and the reports that followed led to the opening of an investigation for "incitement to racial hatred".
An employee of the Meaux town hall launched, on October 19, a call to murder a veiled woman, following a demonstration against Islamophobia organized in Paris.
The French State has decided to file a complaint against a man from Drôme who declared that France "is heading straight for the abyss, towards the unspeakable, towards apartheid". In this regard, the Drôme Prefecture has seized the Public Prosecutor.
Aged 19 to 55, Sarah, Zouna, Sabrina, Hind, Safia and Inès*, from various backgrounds in France, recount slices of life on wearing the veil, at a time when the debates around this issue are returning and intensifying.
The Place de la République in Paris was the scene last Saturday of a large demonstration that brought together several hundred women. The aim was for them to denounce the Islamophobic climate that is gaining ground in France.
Commentator Eric Zemmour wants to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). He had been convicted of incitement to religious hatred after his appearance on the show "C à vous" on September 6, 2016.
The French humorist of Moroccan origin, Yassine Belattar , seems very affected by the controversy over the veil, which has taken on a certain magnitude in France in recent weeks.
As the sequence of the Islam slip-up on the "Le Grand soir" show on Monday continues to fuel controversy, another LCI journalist has compared the veil to "SS uniforms". This was enough for the Television Directorate to raise its voice in an attempt to discipline its journalists.