Veil-wearers’ fines paid

A FRENCH businessman paid fines for two women in Belgium who wore full-face veils in public and said he would take Belgium and France to court over laws banning Muslim niqabs and burqas.

Property dealer Rachid Nekkaz has set up a €1 million fund to cover fines and paid the first €50 penalties imposed in Belgium on two women.

“France and Belgium have decided to forbid the possibility and the liberty of women to wear what they want,” he told reporters outside a municipal office in Brussels.