Marine Le Pen's National Rally plans to "sanction" the wearing of the veil with a fine

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Marine Le Pen lors d'un débat devant le Medef avec d'autres candidats à l'élection présidentielle française de 2027 à Paris, le 27 août 2026. © Stéphanie Lecocq, Reuters 01:44 Issued on: 31/08/2026 - 22:01 The National Rally plans to "penalize the wearing of the Islamic veil" with "a fine" if it comes to power, MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy, Marine Le Pen's lieutenant in the presidential election, stated on Sunday. "We will obviously fight Islamist ideology and we will penalize the wearing of the veil, also in solidarity with all the women around the world who are forced to wear it and who die for this freedom," the MP said. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis reports. Keywords for this article