2023-06-27 11:47:16
AA / Nice / Feïza Ben Mohamed
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he was “strongly opposed” to allowing female football players to wear the Hijab during an interview with RTL radio on Tuesday morning.
“Allowing it would be a very strong knife blow against the republican pact”, he considered, affirming that “sports fields are undoubtedly the last places where religious neutrality (…) is almost perfect”.
The tenant of Beauvau denounces for this purpose the “community associations” which he considers that they are not there to “return freedom of worship” but to carry a “blow against the Republic”.
“You don’t have to wear religious clothes when you play sports (…) When you play football, you don’t have to know the religion of the person in front of you,” he said. to be worth.
While the Council of State will make its decision on the matter in mid-July, Gérald Darmanin “deeply hopes for the Republic that they will maintain neutrality on the sports grounds”.
It should be noted that he was invited to react the day after a hearing which opposed the collective “Hijabeuses” to the FFF (French Football Federation) before the administrative jurisdiction of the country.
The football players thus wish to have article 1 of the FFF regulations annulled, which prohibits “any wearing of a sign or outfit ostensibly manifesting a political, philosophical, religious or trade union affiliation”.
Before the Council of State, the public rapporteur had aligned himself with the position of the collective by considering that the players could not be subject to the duty of neutrality opposed to civil servants and public service missions.
During a press briefing at the end of the hearing, the president of the collective of “Hijabeuses”, Founé Diawara, considered “incomprehensible that veiled women are prohibited from playing football in competition”.
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