Rutte also warns: the ban on the burqa will soon be applied everywhere Interior

The Mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, said earlier that he would not maintain the ban on clothing covering the face. Rotterdam and Utrecht also prefer to give priority to other issues.

Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Home Affairs) calls these statements "premature". She is still in discussion with all kinds of parties about the introduction of the law.

Adopted in June, the law prohibits the wearing of clothes that cover the face in the sectors of education, transportation in common, schools and government buildings. In any case, the law does not enter into force on January 1st, because Ollongren still discusses it. The talks should clearly indicate how the law is applied and how it should be applied.

According to the municipality of Amsterdam, there are too few agents to apply. If priorities are set, the ban burqa application is at the bottom of the list. Other major cities have also spoken of the ban in similar terms. In the Netherlands, a few hundred women wear a burqa.

"Threat" Rutte

VVD party leader Klaas Dijkhoff said this weekend that Amsterdam should enforce the ban on the burqa in the future. State Secretary Barbara Visser (Defense), member of the party, is attached to the. Rutte also joins this choir, confirmed the government information service. "Let's start by introducing the law, then the big cities will see that it applies to them as well."

When Minister Ronald Plasterk (Ollongren's predecessor) guided the proposal presented by the House of Commons representatives in 2016, he presumed that the law would not put much pressure on the police. would. "Sometimes it will have to be maintained," he said at the time