© Jean-Christophe-Verhaegen / AFPA woman surfs a website which sells "burqinis", a swimsuit that covers most of the body, Metz, eastern France.
One more French Riviera town has outlawed burqinis since the city of Cannes issued a ban on the Muslim swimwear for women. This time, the mayor says the decision was made for "hygienic reasons."
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I was informed that there was a couple on one of our beaches where the wife was swimming fully dressed," Lionnel Luca, the mayor of Villeneuve-Loubet, a town with 15,000 residents, told AFP. "
I considered that unacceptable for hygienic reasons and that, in general, it was unwelcome."
The decree enacting the ban was signed on August 5, but was only made public on Saturday. The text of the order says"access to swimming is prohibited from July 1 to August 31 for anyone not in appropriate dress, which respects morality and the principle of secularism, and respects the rules of hygiene and safety," the
Le Monde newspaper, which saw the text,
reported.
Comment: Electronic transactions are also an excellent way to track the populations' spending and to freeze (or confiscate) their earnings as the government sees fit. A cashless society is just another means of government control over the masses.