One million views in less than 24 hours. The video of an incident occurred Friday at the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, posted by an elected National Rally (RN), where we see the latter take to party a woman veiled in the public, became viral on Twitter Saturday afternoon.
In this video, put online Friday afternoon by the president of the RN group at the regional assembly Julien Odoul, the latter asks that a veiled woman present in the audience, accompanying a group of children from Belfort attend the plenary assembly, withdraws his veil. Julien Odoul, also a member of the national office of the RN, has called in particular to the "laic principles", to "the law of the Republic" or to the regulation of the Regional Council. The elected officials of the RN then left the room, before denouncing in a statement an "Islamist provocation".
[RT] In the name of our Republican and lay principles, I asked @MarieGuiteDufay to remove the Islamic veil from a school counselor present in the Chamber. After the assassination of our 4 policemen, we can not tolerate this communitarian provocation pic.twitter.com/3WzqDEC3nn
- Julien Odoul (@JulienOdoul) October 11, 2019The president of the regional council does not exclude to lodge a complaint
The president PS of the regional council, Marie-Guite Dufay, replied that neither the regional council's rules nor the law prohibited the wearing of the veil in the hemicycle, according to the full video of the plenary assembly, available on the website of the community. She then denounced in the evening, also in a statement, a "surge of hatred" and condemned behavior "unworthy of elected officials of the Republic", not excluding "report these facts to the Prosecutor of the Republic and to complain ".
"I'm going to Belfort on Tuesday to meet the children, their teachers and companions," she added Saturday in a Tweet, in which she said she spoke "at length with this mother to bring him all (his) support" . State Secretary for Equality between Women and Men, Marlene Schiappa, also pitched on Twitter on Saturday, saying that "it is by humiliating mothers publicly in front of their children that we create communitarianism. ".
1 / It is by humiliating mothers publicly in front of their children that we create communitarianism
2 / The 1905 law does not provide for this
3 / The RN is not qualified to speak "on behalf of women who fight for their rights everywhere"
You are not our allies anywhere. https://t.co/oe0bopkJuh