In Toulouse, police officers asked school heads to tell them the number of students absent on the day of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan and celebrated on April 21. The Secretary of State for the Citizen Sonia Backès says that the initiative was not part of a desire to "file" students and.
"No nominative data was requested or recorded at any time," she says. The Union of Mosques of France for its part called for a "proper investigation"