Burkini Wearing Australian ‘Chased Off Beach By French Locals’ Despite Ban Being Overturned

Source: Huffington Post

By Sara C Nelson; Senior Editor, The Huffington Post UK

A Muslim woman from Australia has revealed how she was forced off a French beach – for wearing a burkini.

Though the ban on burkinis was overturned in August by France’s top administrative court, Zeynab Alshelh and her mother were chased off a beach in Villeneuve-Loubet.

The pair were both wearing the body-covering swimwear favoured by some Muslim women and which were deemed a “provocation” that supports radicalism Islam by the mayors of French Riviera towns which instigated the ban.

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