The municipal council of Grenoble is preparing this Monday to adopt a deliberation allowing to modify the rules of the swimming pools of the city and to lift the current clothing prescriptions, very restrictive. This amounts to lifting, at the same time, the ban on wearing a burkini, a bathing outfit worn by certain Muslim women, which is particularly covering.
For the ecologist mayor Éric Piolle, “it’s a choice of simplicity”. “We must allow women to dress or undress as they wish”, explained the EELV councilor of Grenoble on Franceinfo this morning.
According to him, it is a question of “ensuring equal access to public services (…) while respecting health and safety”. “It was done in Rennes without any problem. There are plenty of other swimming pools in France that allow you to come in with burkinis,” he said. The city of Ille-et-Vilaine changed its regulations in 2018 and the burkini has since been authorized in swimming pools, recalls The Dauphine Libere.
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The prefect of Isère warns the town hall
The subject polarizes the political class and many right-wing (and even left-wing) officials have already expressed their disagreement with this measure, including the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, also passed instructions, and the prefect of Isère said he was ready to challenge the measure by asking the administrative court for its cancellation, report our colleagues in this article.
The separatism law voted in August 2021 allows the prefects to seize the administrative judge faced with an act of a local authority that they consider contrary to the principles of secularism. However, according to a press release from the prefecture, this measure “whose objective is to give in to communitarian demands with religious aims seems to contravene the principle of secularism laid down by the law of 1905 as well as the provisions of the law of August 24, 2021 confirming respect for the principles of the Republic”.
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Piolle “hurts” “republican values”, says a spokeswoman for LREM
Eric Piolle is doing “harm” to “republican values” with this “absolutely serious” project, said Priscal Thévenot, one of the spokespersons for LREM, on Monday. “As the nation’s elected representative, he should question himself because I have the impression that he does not realize the harm he is doing to our republican values,” he said. she added on Radio J. “We don’t come to promote burkini political coups (…). When entering a municipal swimming pool, all citizens must respect the rules”. However, “there, we would come to derogate from the rule to respond to a religious political will”, denounced Prisca Thévenot, legislative candidate in the Hauts-de-Seine.
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Why did France give women the right to vote so late, because it was considered that they were going to be influenced by their husbands and priests. Let women be free. Until ten years ago you could not go into the National Assembly or the Senate in pants. It all doesn’t make sense.
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This morning, Éric Piolle nevertheless called for “enforcement of the law of 1905 (on the separation of church and state, editor’s note.) which is extremely modern” and to “lead a fight against political Islam in where it is needed”. Comparing this authorization with that of voting or wearing pants, he invited to “leave women free” and to “stop always regulating women’s bodies”.
The mayor has also decided to accept topless bathing. Here again, he assures us that it is a question of “removing the prohibitions”.
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