LAURENCE ROSSIGNOL
At the time she made this statement, she was the French Minister of Families, Infants and Women;s Rights. France was in the midst of a political and legal argument over the right of communities to ban women at the beaches to wear burkina’s. These were garments that covered the woman’s body completely that some French Muslim leaders claimed was the only mortal way a Muslim woman could go to a beach. Secularists divided into two groups. Those who argued that the right of dress or undress for a French woman was inviolable by the state. The otters groups argued that the burkini was clear method of control of women by men which is so contrary to French rights and mores, that the community should be allowed to be practiced. The Minister was with the latter group.
Laurence Rossignol is a French politician. She served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014, representing Oise. Rossignol became the Secretary of State for the Family, Senior Citizens and Autonomy in 2014. In 2015, she defended the government's policy of testing the bones of foreign minors to determine their age. She has served as the Minister of Families, Children and Women's Rights from February 2016 to May 2017. In 2016, she compared Islamic women who chose to wear veils to "negroes who were for slavery". This attracted controversy on social media.
