LES CATALANS SE REVEILLENT !
Catalonia plans to ban the burka
The Catalan Government has announced that it will
control the wearing of burkas and other face-coverings such as helmets
and masks in public spaces "for reasons of public safety".
The move was announced on Wednesday by Ramon Espadaler, Interior Minister for Catalonia, which is an autonomous state.
The Catalan daily La Vanguardia
quoted Mr Espadaler as denying that it had anything to do with
religious issues. "It is not a general prohibition," he said "That would
lead us nowhere and we would be infringing on fundamental rights."
He added: "We want to be sensitive" and urged a "careful, subtle and clear debate" to find a "consensus".
This
may be an attempt to get round a previous ruling by Spain's Supreme
Court that local authorities do not have the jurisdiction to regulate
fundamental human rights. The Supreme Court over ruled previous attempts
to ban burkas in a number of municipalities.
Espadaler
referred to the previous legislative failure by saying that "the path
taken by other town halls was not the right one but there is a problem
here and we do not wish to look the other way". He pointed out that the
new proposed law would also affect demonstrators and protesters who
cover their faces in public.
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