France bans its athletes from wearing headscarf at 2024 Paris Olympic Games
PARIS (AA) – French athletes will not be allowed to wear headscarf in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the country’s sports minister has said.
Appearing at a show on France 3 TV on Sunday, Amelie Oudea-Castera expressed support for “strict secularism” and said that no member of the French delegation would be allowed to wear the headscarf.
The 2024 Olympic Summer Games will be held from July 26 to August 1 11 in the French capital.
A group of footballers, known as “Les Hijabeuses”, had applied to the Council of State against the French Football Federation’s (FFF) decision to ban the head covering in 2016.
In June, the Council of State rejected the appeal and upheld the ban.
The hijab or headscarf is worn by Muslim women as an expression of modesty. France has one of the largest Muslim minority communities in Europe, therefore, the ban will serve to further exclude and marginalize Muslim women.
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