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Threat to circumcision grows in Europe

July 26, 2012 11:33
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ByOrlando Radice, Orlando Radice

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Fears that a court ruling in Germany last month criminalising religious circumcision would have a knock-on effect across Europe are slowly being realised.

This week, the governor of Vorarlberg, an Austrian province, told state-run hospitals to suspend religious circumcisions until the legal situation in the country is clarified.

Governor Markus Wallner’s instruction came in the wake of the Cologne court ruling that the practice amounted to causing bodily harm.

The German district judge came to the decision in the case of a young Muslim boy who suffered medical complications following a ritual circumcision.