Deputy leader LR Laurent Wauquiez will present a bill in the National Assembly banning the wearing of the veil for minors, according to information from Europe 1 this Monday, which was confirmed by Le Parisien.
Based on the report “The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France” published in May 2025, Laurent Wauquiez’s bill condemns “the most worrying phenomenon”: namely the “massive and marked increase in the number of little girls” wearing the niqab.
The deputy believed, among other things, that “to impose a veil on a child” was to “instill” in the minds of his children “conceptions so far removed from French propriety as the inferiority of women or their responsibility in the interest that the sight of her hair might arouse the passion of men.”
“Legislator’s Obligations”
Laurent Wauquiez explains that it is “the duty of the legislator” to “ensure, at all times, that these principles are preserved and, if necessary, act to guarantee them”.
The bill will complement article 1 of the Law of 11 October 2010 which prohibits concealing the face in public spaces. The law would introduce “a ban on parents forcing or allowing their underage daughters to wear the veil in public spaces”.
This is not the first time Laurent Wauquiez has taken a stand on the issue of wearing the veil. Last April, tensions rose between François Bayrou and him at a breakfast with executives at Matignon, particularly over the issue of the veil in sport. Laurent Wauquiez supports banning the veil in all sporting activities, and the former Prime Minister “does not support this law” which risks “stigmatizing our 9 million Muslim compatriots”.
