Rachida Kabbouri, EELV municipal councilor of Vitry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne, has been the target of numerous insults and has been the subject of several complaints for having worn the Islamic veil when she chaired an office of vote in his town for the first round of departmental elections, Le Parisien learned on Saturday, June 21.
Information confirmed in
Figaro
this Sunday.
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Following which Sophie Thibault, the prefect of Val-de-Marne, forced her to switch with an assessor to the extent that the law imposes neutrality on the president.
"
Several lifts have been recorded by our services from people who were surprised at this situation,
" explained the
Parisian
prefecture.
And to add that "
we looked at the electoral code and things are clear: a president of a polling station is subject to neutrality as a representative of the State, delegated by the mayor to play an essential role for the conduct. of the ballot.
He must therefore not wear any conspicuous religious sign
”
"Worse than Macron's slap because he still keeps his post"
“A woman entered office number 15 of the Jean-Jaurès school, of which I was the president. She insulted me, calling me an "Islamist" because I was wearing a headscarf, "
for her part was sorry for the elected representative in the regional daily.
“
The control commission which had come to see the good functioning of the office did not reproach me for wearing a headscarf.
One of the assessors wore a typical French beret!
Everything was going wonderfully up to this incident,
”she further explained.
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According to this woman, who describes herself as an open Muslim, committed to civic life, trade unionist, elected in many democratic bodies, the mayor of the town even apologized
"for this aberration, very embarrassed by an incoherent situation. This sends us back to the idea that French people from diverse backgrounds will always remain the service minions!
". “
Sunday, I felt injustice and exclusion to tears, it takes you to the guts like a blow struck by surprise. Worse than
Macron's slap
because he still keeps his post,
”she added.
"
The assessors are for their part not subject to this neutrality because they are appointed by the candidates,
" said the prefecture.
This is why the regional candidate Jordan Bardella (RN) found himself facing a veiled assessor while going to vote in Saint-Denis last Sunday.
The photo, posted on social networks, had been widely commented, both by its opponents and by members of the RN.
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