(Dutch News) Over a year since the Netherlands introduced a ban on wearing face coverings in public, just four women have been warned for wearing a niqab and no-one has been fined, the Volkskrant said on Wednesday.
The so-called burqa ban was introduced at the beginning of August 2019 after a 13-year political struggle, despite critics warning the legislation was largely symbolic.
All four warnings — for wearing a niqab on a bus, on the train, in a hospital and in a town hall — were all given shortly after the ban was introduced and since then there has been nothing official. The paper bases its claim on police figures obtained using freedom of information legislation.
