The municipal left accuses two Toulouse elected officials of having violated the principle of secularism by wearing their tricolor scarf during a religious ceremony. For the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Moudenc, the opposition is showing “anti-Catholic sectarianism”.
The dishcloth burns about two tricolor scarves. Two Toulouse elected officials displayed the symbol of their office during a religious ceremony in Lourdes. The municipal left has stepped up. An elected environmentalist, Régis Godec, will seize secular councila body created in 2014 by the town hall of Toulouse.
After 48 hours of controversy, the mayor of Toulouse spoke. Jean-Luc Moudenc defends his two elected officials, Jean-Michel Lattes and Jean-Baptiste de Scoraille.
Jean-Luc Moudenc counterattacks by evoking “anti-Catholic sectarianism” on the part of the municipal opposition. The mayor of Toulouse also raises the question of secularism by declaring that “the disturbing attacks on secularism no longer concern the Catholic religion”.
This position did not go unnoticed by the Muslim community. One of its representatives contacted France 3 Occitanie and considers Jean-Luc Moudenc’s comments “inadmissible”, believing that “it smells of an attack on Islam and Muslims”.
