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Wednesday 3rd February 2010 16:46

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Women wear the niqab in Marseille commercial street

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The French government has refused citizenship to a foreign national who forced his wife to wear the Islamic veil.

French Immigration Minister Eric Besson signed a decree rejecting a man's citizenship application after it emerged that he had ordered his wife to cover herself with a head-to-toe veil.

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