On 11 April, the day the French law banning face-covering veils took effect, two striking statements were made. The interior minister, Claude Guéant, a man accused by the socialist opposition of acting as if he were Nicolas Sarkozy's minister for the far-right Front National, assured reporters the new measure would be respected and applied. Emmanuel Roux, assistant secretary-general of a police superintendents' association, candidly admitted the ban would be "infinitely difficult to enforce" and seldom implemented.
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