Overview
- The package, led by Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio and signed by 29 senators, defines islamism as a long-term separatist ideology and urges a global republican rearmament across legal, administrative and political fronts.
- Child-protection proposals include banning the veil for girls under 16 in public and prohibiting religious fasting for those under 16.
- Education measures seek strict neutrality by forbidding veils for school trip chaperones and by extending bans on ostentatious religious symbols to elected officials.
- The report calls for tighter tracing of foreign funding for mosques and associations through mandatory declarations and controls, and for transferring visa issuance to the Interior Ministry.
- Findings draw on 18 witness hearings, including territorial intelligence director Bertrand Chamoulaud and ex–Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Louizi, and the recommendations are already prompting public and political debate.