"What happens in the public space is not the business of the state or the President of the Republic," said Emmanuel Macron, Thursday, on the chain Meeting the 1st.

Marine Le Pen accused Emmanuel Macron Friday of "washing his hands" on the issue of the veil when he says that the veil in the public space "it is not the affair of the State".

"The wearing of the veil in the public space is not my business In the public services, at school, it's my business," said the head of state during a visit to Reunion , also virulently attacking "communautarisme" and the veil "instrument of claim and separatism" in "certain districts". President Emmanuel Macron, "it is Pontius Pilate, he answers 'I wash my hands'", said on France 2 the president of the National Assembly, which wants to ban the veil in all the public space.

"The veil is a weapon used by political Islam to go against everything we believe"

Macron "is not head of the public services, he is president of the Republic, he guarantees the preservation of secularism which is (...) a French treasure, and at the same time he comes to say 'there is whole neighborhoods, there is a political Islam that, through communitarianism, seeks to secede with the Republic. "And what does it bring to answer? Nothing, I wash my hands ", accused the far-right leader. "It is in his mind the ideology of the law of the strongest, he already applies in economics, it already applies in the social field," said the head of the RN.

"The veil is a weapon used by political Islam to go against everything we believe in: secularism, freedom, equality between women and men." This is a huge regression to which President Emmanuel Macron forces the French to submit, "added the presidential finalist in 2017." Thirty years ago, the only women wearing the veil were the Algerian women. nature, under the pressure of the Muslim Brotherhood who seek to veil women around the world, "according to Marine Le Pen.