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France may enshrine Supremacy of Law over Religion in Constitution after teacher attack

Moscow, Oct 19 (Sputnik) - The French Senate on Monday deliberates over a draft law that seeks to prohibit justification of crime with ethnic or religious motives on constitutional grounds, following the recent killing of a French teacher by a Chechen teenager.
"Believing that community aspirations are making themselves heard more and more, Philippe BAS , Bruno RETAILLEAU, Herve MARSEILLE and several of their colleagues wish, through this proposed constitutional law, to reaffirm that the laws of the Republic prevail over standards arising from religious convictions or rules based on ethnicity," the Senate said in a statement.
It added that the bill envisions amending Article 1 of the French Constitution, allowing the equality of all before the law regardless of origin, race or religion, by affirming the principle, under which "no individual or group may rely on their origin or religion to exempt themselves from respect for the common rule."
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