Abayas: Conseil d’Etat upholds ban on “abayas” in schools

On September 27, the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative court) handed down a decision that had been awaited for a year: whether or not the ban on “abayas” in schools complied with the law. This ban was issued in September 2023 by a memo from Gabriel Attal, then Minister of Education, and concerns “the wearing […]