A far-right politician demanded a woman remove her hijab in a public meeting. Now, a fresh row over secularism has begun in France.
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00:00I'm going to ask you, please, in the name of our laic principles, to ask the accompanist
00:19who has just entered this room to remove her veil of Islam, please.
00:30We are in a meeting, and I'm going to ask you, please, in the name of our laic principles,
00:47to ask the accompanist who has just entered this room to remove her veil of Islam, please.
00:58We are in a public building, we are in a democratic building,
01:04Madame has all the leisure to keep her veil at home, in the street, but not here, not today.
01:11So please, in the name of our republican principles, in the name of all the women who fight in the world
01:19to get rid of the Islamic dictatorship, I ask you to ask this person to remove her veil.
01:26This is the law of the republic, no sign of authority.
01:57I'm going to ask you, please, in the name of our laic principles,
02:05in the name of our laic principles, in the name of all the women who fight in the world
02:13to get rid of the Islamic dictatorship, I ask you to ask this person to remove her veil.
02:21It's a shame, because it's a way to dig, to dig the cracks, to instill hatred and malice between us.
02:49It's really, really, really disappointing.