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Late last month, with France still in vacation mode, Gabriel Attal, 34, the newly appointed education minister and a favourite of President Emmanuel Macron, declared that “the abaya can no longer be worn in schools.”
URL copied to clipboard The Radical Right movement Génération Identitaire (GI) was banned by the French government on 3 March. Although the decision will be challenged in courts, it is very unlikely that it will be overturned, thus forcing the 800 to 1,000-members group to find new legal means to continue without facing criminal charges. Curious about the future of the movement, I met with Clément Martin, one of GI’s former spokespeople, a day after the ban. Martin is in his late 20s, from the city of Nice. He jokes about “having grown white hair” and “belonging to a generation...