• Marine Le Pen declared on France Inter, Tuesday, to want to ban the wearing of the Islamic veil in the street "like Mr. Bourguiba who had banned the veil in Algeria".

  • Habib Bourguiba was not president of Algeria, but of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987.

  • Wearing the veil has never been banned in the street in Tunisia or Algeria.

Invited Tuesday morning on France Inter, Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally in the presidential election recalled her plan to ban the veil from public space in France if she were elected President of the Republic at the end of the second round.

Faced with Léa Salamé who pointed out to her that France would be the only country to ban the veil in the street, the candidate defends her position by taking the example of “Mr. Bourguiba who had banned the veil in Algeria”.

This morning, on France Inter, Marine Le Pen declared that Bourguiba had banned the veil in... Algeria.

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His answer caused a lot of reaction because of a first major mistake that made social networks jump, since Habib Bourguiba was the president of … Tunisia from 1957 to 1987.

It remains to be seen whether Marine Le Pen wanted to take Algeria or Tunisia as an example.

Since we are not in the head of the candidate, we take stock of the situation in the two countries.

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As researcher Maryam Ben Salem points out in an academic article published in 2010, four circulars taken from 1981 and banned "denominational dress" in public schools, higher education schools, housing estates and university hostels , among officials of the administration and public establishments of both sexes.

“The prohibition of wearing the veil was extended to private establishments by another circular dated December 1991”.

Questioned by our

Liberation

colleagues , Maryam Ben Salem insists on the fact that "the veil has never been banned in the street".

If these circulars are in theory still in application, they have not been applied since the 2011 revolution, indicated Loïc Le Pape, sociologist specializing in Islam, still at

Liberation

.

No ban in Algeria or Tunisia

The question of the veil in Algeria is old and deep.

It had even been at the center of French colonization.

However, all the specialists contacted by

20 Minutes

agree on this point: the wearing of the veil has never been prohibited in public space in Algeria.

Razika Adnani, Islamologist, philosopher and member of the orientation council of the Foundation of Islam in France, certainly evokes a “social prohibition in the 1950s and 1960s”.

During colonization, therefore.

"Women who worked, went to college or high school did not wear it to show that they were what were called 'civilized women', as opposed to housewives, who stayed at home.

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