(CBC) A Quebec court judge who refused to hold a hearing for a Montreal woman after the woman refused to remove her hijab now says she’s willing to apologize for the incident, more than five years after it happened.
In February 2015, Judge Eliana Marengo refused to hear the case of Rania El-Alloul.
El-Alloul was in court trying to get her impounded car back.
“In my opinion, you are not suitably dressed,” Marengo told El-Alloul at the time. The judge said the court was a secular space, and no religious symbols should be worn by those before it.
Marengo compared the hijab to a hat and sunglasses, saying she wouldn’t hear a case from someone wearing those, either.
