The father of a girl who was turned away from a French state school for wearing the banned abaya has been arrested for allegedly making death threats to its headmaster.
President Emmanuel Macron’s administration announced last month it was banning the abaya, a long, full-body tunic, in schools, saying it broke the rules on secularism in education.
The same legislation has already seen Muslim headscarves forbidden on the grounds that they constitute a display of “conspicuous” religious affiliation. Read the full story here ▶
