As the French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed allegations this week that France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, may have funded his election campaign, the country’s parliamentarians were debating the dressing habits of some of its women, including its poorest.
The National Assembly is set to pass a so-called “burqa ban”, preventing women from wearing full Islamic veils in public. If rubber-stamped by the Senate in September, it is expected to affect around 2,000 Muslim women, largely socially disadvantaged ones living on out-of-town housing estates.
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