The government will not follow Bruno Retailleau who wanted to ban the veil at university for chaperones on school trips

This Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the government indicated that it will not ban the wearing of the veil during school trips, as suggested by the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

Earlier this week, Bruno Retailleau had indicated that he wanted to ban the veil during school trips but also in universities. “I hope that one of the major priorities in the coming months will be the fight against the Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhoods“, which he accuses of making “entryism”.

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He believes that to fight against this “entryism”, it will be necessary “to extend the scope of secularism to other public spaces, for example to sports competitions or outings schools”.

A “personal position”

But this Wednesday, Sophie Primas, government spokesperson, indicated that François Bayrou's government will not follow the proposals formulated by the Minister of the Interior. “It was her personal position and that this subject, probably not having a majority in Parliament, was not a subject that would be addressed by the government in the current state of the parliamentary majority”, she declared during the report of the Council of Ministers at the Élysée.

For Bruno Retailleau, “the 2004 law on religious symbols must be applied to these activities: school trips are school outside the walls”.

“What is at stake, he said, are the conquests of the West as gender equality, freedom of conscience or our French secularism”.

He also adds that there is “also the issue of migration which is also linked, in part, to that of Islamism”.

Regarding immigration, which he wants to limit and which is a matter of debate within the government, Bruno Retailleau warns: “For my part, I will not give an inch on immigration, as on the restoration of public order”. These remarks were made on the eve of the commemorations of the Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher attacks.