Photo: AFPThe Local · 24 Aug 2016, 11:16Published: 24 Aug 2016 11:16 GMT+02:00Pictures have emerged showing armed police officers in southern France apparently forcing a woman to remove her burqini. A woman on a Nice beach literally ordered to strip. Are there women out here, Muslim or not, who will no longer go on holiday to French beach towns because of the clothes ban? — Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) August 24, 2016The news comes just one day after a French woman reported that she was told to pay a fine or leave a Cannes beach for wearing a headscarf. The woman, originally from Toulouse, was wearing leggings, a tunic and her hijab - a headscarf covering her hair - while at La Bocca beach with her family.

Source: The Local August 24, 2016 09:22 UTC