Overview

• Gabriel Attal proposed banning minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public following a report on Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in France.
• The proposal has been widely criticized across the political spectrum, including from Attal's own party, Renaissance.
• Senate President Gérard Larcher and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau dismissed the measure as legally and practically inapplicable.
• Critics, including Jordan Bardella of Rassemblement National, highlighted contradictions with Attal's past opposition to similar proposals under Marine Le Pen.
• Only a few loyalists, such as deputy Prisca Thevenot, have publicly supported the proposal, leaving its future uncertain.