She was harassed and insulted on a daily basis because of her black face veil. In October 2017, wearing a face veil became also illegal in Austria. The face veil is light with a thin dark border. By the age of twenty, Nora Illi wore the Niqab (face veil) in public. Nomadic women did not wear the face veil and neither did peasant women. Immediately after the 15 June attack, Chad's government banned the full face veil.