Posted on 04/19/2018 8:54:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A woman was denied French nationality after refusing to shake hands with officials during the official citizenship ceremony, it has been reported this week.
The Algerian woman was attending the official ceremony in Isère, southeast France, after her successfully applying for citizenship via her marriage to a French national.
But she “expressly refused to shake hands with the secretary-general of the prefecture and another local official”, according to a case heard by France’s highest court the Conseil d’État (State Council) that was published on the French government’s justice website LegiFrance.
The woman claims her actions at the ceremony in Isère, eastern France, in June 2016 were “motivated by her religious convictions”.
The then-prime minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, opposed the woman’s request for French nationality, claiming “her act meant that she could not be considered as integrated into the French community”. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Ha! Good. Now have French women do the swearing in of the men.
I wouldn’t want to get a bacterial infection or herpes off such a ring...especially if others have kissed it!
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