Twenty years after the 2004 law in France on the wearing of religious symbols at school, things are mostly going smoothly, school leaders assure, despite some highly publicized conflicts. “Today, reports for wearing religious signs and outfits are at their lowest,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday March 13 in an interview with AFP. Decryption by Vincent Geisser, sociologist, research fellow at the CNRS and director of Iremam.
The 2004 law on religious symbols is 20 years old: the system “has been well respected”
