This collective, created in May 2020, stands against the French Football Federation (FFF), which forbids them to play veiled in competition.
Le Monde with AFP
The Paris Police Prefecture announced, Tuesday, 8 February to the evening, prohibit the planned event on Wednesday on the Esplanade of the invalids to the call of “hijabeuses”, a collective of footballers who militate for the right to bring the Sailing during sports competitions.
“It is to be feared that this event attracts, in addition to the people who support it, people hostile to the defended cause and likely to fight with the first [era], argues the prefecture in a statement. The prohibition of the gathering is justified “as well for the security of the demonstrators themselves and for the maintenance of public order,” she adds.
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This collective, created in May 2020, stands against the French Football Federation (FFF), which prohibits veiled play in competition. The young women had given “appointment at 4:30 pm, for the return match on the invalid esplanade, right next to the National Assembly”, according to their Twitter account. On the program: “football games with hijabeuses, ally.e.s and the eludes + speaking”.
The court seized to challenge the ban
“We obviously seized the court to challenge this arbitrary, unjust and completely disproportionate decision”, reacted the collective on Twitter after the announcement made by the police prefecture. “An audience will take place tomorrow morning, and it is hoped that the prefecture will be brought back on this prohibition. On our side, we will play whatever happens. Surely elsewhere … But we will play,” says the collective on the social network.
The hijabeuses had already invited briefly, on January 26, in the garden of Luxembourg, at the foot of the Senate, to exchange some passes, with a banner wearing the slogan “football for all”, before. Be invited to go through the gendarmes.
This new call to demonstrate coincides with the return to the Bourbon Palace of a proposal for a law of the Republic (LRM) on the sport, which sees deputies and senators oppose the question of the ban on the port Sailing in competition.
The senators had voted on 19 January an amendment prohibiting the port of “ostensible religious signs” during a sports competition, immediately gummed by the members. Both rooms could not get along with a common text, a new reading is scheduled for the National Assembly on Wednesday. The debates must then return by the Senate on February 16th before the members give their last word.