Two Muslim men have refused to be silenced after a destabilizing and inhumane act was dashed them resulting in untold pain and suffering.
the two muslim security guards with their faces covered for identity protection
Two Muslim security guards have claimed they were sacked from a Paris airport because their beards were too long. That really must be a joke! No, it isn't.
One of the men, named only as Bachir, claimed he had faced negative comments from colleagues, with one supervisor 'offering to bring in a lawnmower' to trim his beard. He revealed he might have been fired over his refusal to trim and cut his beard.
The 28-year-old man claimed to have worked at the airport for five years, claims he was fired just days later after he filed a discrimination complaint, it was reported by Le Parisien. Also, another guard named Bechir revealed to that he also might have been fired over his beard.
He said he suspected that after he was told to leave his job on medical terms.
the busy airport in Paris where they worked
In order to get to the root of the matter, a lawyer has taken on both men's cases, claiming that some companies had become 'paranoid' after the November 13 gun and suicide bomb attacks by ISIS militants.
However, Augustin de Romanet, chief executive officer of Aeroports de Paris (ADP), has thrown more light on what truly might have happened.
The man revealed that the prefecture – the representative of the state – which issues the badges had carried out a screening after the attacks on Paris in which 130 people were killed and 350 injured. 'Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation,' he said in an interview with French media.
He said around 85,000 people had secure-zone clearance in the two airports, most of them working for airlines or for 'several hundred' sub-contractors.
'To be issued with a red badge, you have to be cleared by police, and if you work for a company that carries out security checks of in-flight luggage, you need three police checks,' De Romanet said.
The men have launched legal action after management at Orly airport allegedly rounded up Muslim staff and asked them to trim their facial hair in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.