Police in France -- home to Europe's largest Muslim population -- arrested two protesters wearing niqab veils today (April 11, 2011), as a ban on full-face coverings went into effect, according to the Times of India website.
The women -- part of a demonstration that erupted in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris -- were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest rather than for wearing their veils.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the veil ban would be enforced, in the name of "secularism and equality between men and women -- two principles upon which we can not compromise."
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