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France bans full face veils, spurring protests

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-04-12 10:17

French police escort Kenza Drider (C), a French Muslim of North African descent, wearing a niqab, away from the square outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris April 11, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

A woman who identified herself as Nayet, wearing a burqa, is seen after her release from a police station in Paris April 11, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]