Entry denied for face-veil trio
Three Saudi women who refused to remove their face veils at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport have been barred from entering France.
A 2011 French law bans people from wearing Islamic veils in public.
A police union official said yesterday officers asked the women to remove their veils after they arrived on Monday on a flight from Doha, Qatar. After the women refused, they were put on a plane back to Doha.
Supporters of the ban say the veil contradicts France’s principles of secularism and women’s rights.