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Chrystelle Khedrouche is 36 and lives in a suburb just outside Paris. She has been wearing a burka in public for around 12 years. She is French-born, has five children, and is married to an Algerian. She is a convert to Islam.
These are her views about the proposed ban on wearing the burka and niqab in public places:
"I'm really very sad about this, but I'm not so surprised because it is part of the French mentality, but it makes me sad and it's hard that this is the stage we have got to. It's been several years that we live like this and we have been perfectly fine, but then I'm not so surprised because the French like the idea of everyone being of the same mould and that mould must be ideal. Everything that is not part of their ideal model doesn't suit them."