pro-burkini posters plastered on the Jean-Bron swimming pool

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A reference to the open letter sent by Eric Piolle to Prime Minister Jean Castex on June 18, in which the mayor of Grenoble demanded that the State position itself on the clothing authorized or not at the swimming pool. He felt that more and more “users express the inadequacy of internal regulations with their needs, expectations and constraints in terms of health, modesty, beliefs or even allergies“. For him, it grows”each municipality to interpret what is or is not a situation of health risk or discrimination“. A way for the candidate declared for the environmentalist primary not to really position himself for or against the burkini.

“Mister Mayor, Let us choose our jersey”@EricPiolle @VilledeGrenoble#burkini #PoolsForAll #MonCorpsMonChoixMonMaillot pic.twitter.com/5AlMVb6rVw

– AllianceCitoyenne (@alliancecitoyen) July 1, 2021

“Once again, the mayor ignores us and refuses to take responsibility for the accessibility of swimming pools for veiled Muslim women“, had responded Citizen Alliance, which believes that Eric Piolle could simply decide to decide himself.

The choice of the Jean-Bron swimming pool for this poster campaign is part of the continuity of the Citizen Alliance fight: it is here that a dozen women came to bathe in burkini in June 2019, before be controlled by the police.

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