(Local) Rachid Nekkaz, a French-Algerian businessman and activist, has said he will keep a promise he made earlier this year to pay fines issued in Denmark for breaches of the new law against face-masking garments.
The law, popularly known as the “burqa ban,” came into effect last week, to protests in Copenhagen and Aarhus from Muslim women who wear the veil and others who oppose it.
Nekkaz told Berlingske that he would pay fines after a 29-year-old woman in Hørsholm became the first to be penalised under the law.
“Of course I will pay all the fines that are issued on the streets of Denmark after August 1st,” he told Berlingske via written message.
