A Nice court finally suspended the burkini ban on Thursday after city authorities had defied a ruling by the country’s highest administrative court.
Judges in Nice said the terror attack on 14 July in the French Riviera resort city gave insufficient grounds to justify such a ban.
Thursday’s decision follows last week’s ruling by France’s highest administrative court, in a test case expected to set a legal precedent, to suspend the burkini ban in one French Riviera town. Bans have introduced by about 30 towns, mainly in the south-east.
Nice and several towns had ignored the ruling and kept their bans in place in the midst of a raging debate about religious clothing in secular France. [The Guardian] Read more
