Switzerland: Start burqa ban and a fine of $ 10,000 for violations
Switzerland: Start burqa ban and a fine of $ 10,000 for violations
08.07.2016 17:19
[Oan- follow – up]
as of Friday will face any lady wearing the niqab or burqa fine that could be worth up to 10 thousand dollars, where the authorities began to enforce a ban burqa law in parts of Switzerland.
The law, which was approved through a referendum, raised a storm of controversy in 2013, became effective in the Italian – speaking in the south of Switzerland , Ticino region.
Reports said two people actually Unlike the law in the city of Locarno as a kind of protest.
The Web site , “swissinfo that” two people are Swiss woman and a Frenchman business – Algerian and applied the Swiss police offending them.
the range of fines between $ 100 and 10 thousand dollars.
the population of the Ticino region of 350 thousand people, with an estimated percentage of Muslims , including 2 percent.
France was the first European country acknowledged banned the niqab or burqa in 2010.
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