THE QUESTION
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Religious neutrality is imposed today on public service employees, but not on their users.
In the hospital, a doctor cannot be veiled, but his patient can.
Eric Ciotti, candidate for the LR primary for the presidential election, wishes to extend this ban.
“
Today, there is neutrality, it is in the Constitution for civil servants in public services.
I hope that a user of a public service - at the hospital, in a social security counter - cannot go there with a religious symbol that is imposed on others
”, explained the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes during of the third debate organized for the primary.
To read also Eric Ciotti in
Figaro
: "I can win this congress"
Eric Ciotti wants in particular that "
we bring back into force the circular which was in force under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy which prohibited parents from wearing a religious symbol during school trips
".
Would that be legally possible?
CHECKS
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Let's start by specifying that if Eric Ciotti passed a law prohibiting the wearing of the veil in public services, it would not be
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