Oz lady forced off French beach over burkini

Zeynab Alshelh travelled from Sydney several weeks ago with her parents to show solidarity with Muslims in France, equipped with Australian-designed burkinis in the French national colours to give away. As she and her mother, clad in blue burkinis, and her father settled down under a large pink beach umbrella, a man threatened to call police and a blonde woman gave the family a thumbs-down, the footage from Australia’s Channel Seven showed. “It’s upsetting, it’s not fair,” she told the programme that aired on Sunday. 

“We were threatened by locals to leave the beach and if we didn’t, they were going to call the police. They weren’t happy with us being there. They are seeing something that is not there.” A judge in the Mediterranean city of Nice this month declared the prohibition of the fullbody swimwear to be illegal there, in the latest setback to attempts to ban burkini-clad women from the beaches of the Riviera. Nice was one of about 30 towns to ban the burkini.