Monfalcone set to ban burkini bathing

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 14 - The seaside resort town of Monfalcone near Gorizia not far from Venice on Monday said it was set to ban women from bathing in burkinis or otherwise clothed.
    "We are working on the construction of an appropriate measure that prohibits bathing in the sea clothed, wearing a burkini or otherwise covered. We are serious people, by October I will be ready with a measure," said Mayor Anna Maria Cisint, a member of the anti-migrant Northern League party.
    Saying she was against a "return to the Middle Ages", Cisint said she had already written an open letter to the Muslim community inviting them not to bathe with their clothes on.
    On Sunday, in a beach club and bathing establishment in nearby Trieste, there were protests because a group of Muslim women wanted to bathe with their clothes on. (ANSA).