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The approval comes as the "final hurdle" for the ban before becoming a law. It was approved by the lower house of parliament in July and approved by the French senate in September.

The Constitutional Council, which had once warned that the ban may not be constitutional, said in its judgment that the law would not apply to places of worship because of religious freedoms.

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