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Stasi

(from L) French Grand Rabbi Joseph Sitruk, French President Jacques Chirac and Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Muslim Council talk after Chirac gave a speech at the Elysee Palace, to announce his position on relations between religion and the state, 17 December 2003 in Paris. The Stasi commission, appointed last July by the president, handed a report urging legislation aimed at banning 'conspicuous' religious signs in schools last thursday. In the background, right, Bernard Stasi, the head of the 20-member commission.

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