A French sporting goods chain pulled a hijab for women joggers from its shelves after it came under fire from politicians and on social media.
A screenshot taken on Feb. 27, 2019 shows hijabs for women joggers on sale on the Moroccan website of French sporting goods chain Decathlon.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.PARIS -
French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said on Wednesday that sports stores are free to sell the running hijab and that there are no legal objections.In secular France, civil servants cannot wear hair-covering veils during working hours and face-covering veils are banned for everybody in the public space. Items of clothing seen as asserting a religious identity often spark controversy, even if legal.
"Decathlon disowns the values of our civilization on the altar of market and communitarianism marketing," Lydia Guirous, an Algerian-born spokeswoman of the conservative Les Republicains party, said on her Twitter feed.
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