The right-wing League party has
proposed banning the burqa in Venice, local dailies reported
Thursday.
The motion filed by council whip Alex Bazzaro envisages a DASPO
city ban for those wearing the Islamic veil in public.
"We ask the mayor," Bazzaro declared, "to take a position as a
political act: the burqa or niqab is a violation of women's
rights. I do not know of any other religious confessions that
require hiding one's face."
Venice has a conservative mayor, Luigi Brugnaro.
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