Something aggressive about veils, says Chirac Jon Henley in Paris Saturday December 6, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Jacques Chirac hinted strongly yesterday that France will soon introduce legislation banning Muslim girls from wearing headscarves to school, saying most French people saw "something aggressive" in the veil and that the secular state could not tolerate "ostentatious signs of religious proselytism". The French president's comments to secondary school students in Tunis followed a petition published yesterday by 60 prominent French women, including the actors Isabelle Adjani and Emmanuelle Beart and the designer Sonia Rykiel, calling for an outright ban on "this visible...