10 months after an altercation between a student who wears the abaya and a teacher at the Bourdelle high school in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), which led to a complaint being filed by both sides, the file has still not changed. The girl’s lawyer is waiting for a sign from justice and assures that her client is in favor of banning the abaya at school.
The ban on the abaya was formalized before the start of the school year on Monday, September 4, and compliance with this law was particularly scrutinized in establishments. This is the case in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) at the Bourdelle high school where Aminat, a student wearing the abaya, and a teacher, had filed a complaint against each other following an altercation in connection with this garment in November 2022.
The young girl had notably published a video of this clash on TikTok, indicating in particular: “she will see what Allah will do to her“. Almost 10 months after the events, the lawyer returns to the procedure which has not progressed, and to the fate of her client since this incident.
After the various complaints of your client for stigmatization, the complaints of the teacher and the head of the establishment, where is the file?
Master Severine Lheureux : “In this file, it seems that nothing has changed. The complaints filed did not receive any criminal action. There is no scheduled hearing, nor classification without a follow-up envisaged. It’s still under investigation. We are also awaiting the follow-up to another complaint for defamation that we filed before the investigating judge, because of abuses on social networks. As a whole, this case follows the slow pace of justice.”
Maître Lheureux still has no news from the courts, 10 months after the filing of the complaint. • © Julie Valin / FTV
How has your client behaved since the clash with the teacher?
“Since these facts, she has definitely left the establishment. It was too difficult, she felt harassed, the teachers looked even harder at her after the media coverage of the facts.
Today, she works normally to earn a living, while waiting to resume work-study training. She is a young girl who has always wanted to be independent. She continues to wear clothes as she wore them at the material time. It can be long dresses or loose clothes, like a number of young girls of her age.”
Today, what is your client’s opinion on this law prohibiting the abaya?
“Her position is consistent with what she said at the time: she thinks that this law is a good thing, because it puts an end to the imprecision which had led her to express herself: she had said in particular that she did not agree with certain reflections, because there was no law.
This does not mean that this law is not subject to criticism, as it is unclear what could be considered an abaya or not. Today, a concern persists: what type of young girl will be controlled at school? We can fear the offense of facies.“
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