Among the many provisions included in the law consolidating republican principles, the government provides for the creation of a new “Republican contract of engagement”. The measure provides for making associations receiving public subsidies sign a charter of seven articles guaranteeing respect for secularism. The objective, explains Marlène Schiappa to JDD : “Not a euro of public money for the enemies of the Republic”. For example, the JDD evokes the case of a swimming pool at the University of Nanterre, accused of having “made a pact” with a community association. For three years, the university security service noted the arrival, every Sunday morning, of twenty women at the university swimming pool. The common point: they are all veiled, and swim in full suits, says police officers.
An agreement signed between the university and a community association
And this massive and regular arrival of veiled women is no accident. At Sunday newspaper, the police say that an agreement was signed between an association “Officially with a social vocation”… And the management of the university itself. However, the association, which has since become a company, explains on its social networks that it intends to be a “Community organization facilitating legal meetings”. Understand: a sort of marriage agency for Muslims, which posts its support for Tariq Ramadan on the internet. And who therefore considers that women should bathe far from the eyes of men, and fully veiled. It is typically at this kind of associations “In the gray area”, according to the expression used by Marlène Schiappa, that the Republican contract of engagement aims. And the Minister for Citizenship says that associations refusing to sign the contract will be more closely monitored and controlled by mayors and prefects.
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