Mick Hartley

An interesting precedent in Italy:

The wife of a Tunisian imam serving a 10-year jail term in Italy in connection with a terrorist plot will herself face prosecution for attending his trial in a burqa, Italian press reports said.

Monia Mzougi, 37, is to be tried under 1975 public order legislation barring people from wearing clothes that conceal their identity from security personnel “without a valid reason.”

The trial is to begin next January 30 in Cremona, northern Italy, and Mzougi faces a maximum of two years in prison.

Mzougi’s husband, Mourad Trabelsi, was tried in Cremona in September 2005 for being a member of a radical Islamist group that was plotting to attack the city’s cathedral.

I doubt that whoever introduced the 1975 legislation had quite this scenario in mind.