If Bruno Retailleau was in Matignon, Marie Barsacq would no longer be Minister of Sports. Questioned by the deputies, Wednesday March 12 in the National Assembly, she explained: “The subjects of radicalization in sport are another subject than the subject of the wearing of the veil and religious insignia.” Before adding: “all women who wear the veil do not make entrism”, which “is not just the veil”. His entourage was then forced to specify to The team that it was “aligned with the favorable position of the government to Michel Savin’s bill as it was amended”.
The text prohibits the wearing of signs or outfits ostensibly demonstrating a political or religious affiliation during competitions organized by the sports federations, their professional leagues and their affiliated associations, the government having then put an amendment limiting the field of application “to sports competitions organized only by the delegated public service federations”. The Minister would thus be in a “position of balance” between the ban on the wearing of religious signs in competition and the freedom to practice amateur sportsmen, in particular veiled women.
“I am in radical disagreement with her”
Sunday, in The ParisianBruno Retailleau has fully used freedom left to each minister to express himself as he sees fit. “I disagree radical with her. I remind Marie Barsacq that the Senate voted the proposal for law on secularism in sport. The government was favorable and is still it. Fundamentalism has no place in sport. However, in the ministry, I have a certain number of information that demonstrates an Islamist entrism in sport, notably the Muslim Brotherhood. the woman. “
He doesn’t like the veil, but he has two caps. There is the Minister of the Interior and there is the candidate for the presidency of LR, and that’s how François Bayrou sees and hears him. But Matignon’s silence following this public altercation between ministers is explained by another reason. According to information from L’Express, the Head of Government does not disagree with Marie Barsacq. In Pau, we like rugby and François Bayrou saw, without moving it, the final of female rugby at 7: two players had a combination which was their way of covering their heads. He measures the disorder that this case causes in young Muslim women.
Similarly, Bruno Retailleau, in January, had estimated – always on a personal basis – that “the school exit guide do not have to be veiled”: “School outings are the school outside the walls.” “Do they not have to be in school outings? Ah well, isn’t that their mother?” estimated the Prime Minister in private. The Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne, had then asked for the organization of a small meeting of the state ministers to avoid a completely “cacophonic” government, especially since Bruno Retailleau also advocated the ban on the veil at the university.
François Bayrou has a double story on this ground. In 1994, then Minister of National Education, he distributed a circular prohibiting the wearing of ostentatious symbols within schools, which enabled him to assert his firmness. In 1998, for the 400th anniversary of the Edict of Nantes – which recognized freedom of worship to Protestants after decades of war of religions -, he published one of his favorite books, one of the most personal he wrote, too: They wore the white scarf. The abolition of this peaceful text has always marked her enormously and he believes that today looks like yesterday. “It’s the same, all those who were for the abolition applauded passionately, France left the skin and the great-great-grandson of Henri IV (Louis XVI) left the head there,” he observed recently in a small committee.
Macron considers that it is not his subject
At the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron remains co, but he has already had the opportunity to say what he thought. He considers that the veil in public space is not his subject. HAS Current valuesin 2019, he declared: “My problem is not the mother who wears a veil by accompanying her child at school outing … This one is not lost: she put her child in public school and she comes to make a school outing. It is even by her that we will reconquer lost people. […] The child who is well integrated, whose parents are Muslims, he does not bother anyone. Her mother has a scarf, she doesn’t bother anyone, we can’t say to him: ‘You are not welcome’. This is a huge mistake. “
During the 2022 presidential campaign, the president-candidate targets Marine Le Pen when he meets a veiled woman in Strasbourg: “You are a feminist and you wear the veil. It is the best responses to the nonsense that I hear.” The veil, this new French divide which is not about to disappear.