The municipality had adopted, on May 16, a modification of the internal regulations of the swimming pools which authorized this swimsuit. The measure had been suspended the following week by the administrative court of Grenoble.
Le Monde
The wearing of burkini remains prohibited in the municipal pools of Grenoble. The judge in summary proceedings of the Council of State, seized by the town hall of Grenoble, confirmed, Tuesday, June 21, the suspension, decided by the administrative court, of the provision voted by the town hall of Grenoble.
In its ordinance, the Council of State considers that “contrary to the objective displayed by the City of Grenoble, the adaptation of the internal regulations of its municipal swimming pools only aimed to authorize the port of burkini in order to satisfy A claim of a religious nature and, to do this, derogated, for a category of users, to the common rule, enacted for reasons of hygiene and safety, to carry bathing outfits near the body “.
“The new internal regulations of the municipal swimming pools of Grenoble affects compliance by other users of too different ordinary rules, and therefore the proper functioning of the public service, and undermines equal treatment of users, sort that the neutrality of the public service is compromised, “he adds.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, welcomed this decision on Twitter, judging that the “communitarianism of Eric Piolle” had been “definitively sanctioned by the Council of State” in “a victory for The separatism law, for secularism and beyond, for the whole Republic “.
The municipality had adopted, on May 16, a modification of the internal regulations of the swimming pools, which allowed the wearing of the burkini. Very controversial, the decision had been adopted with a very short majority. But on May 25, the decision had been suspended by the administrative court of Grenoble, seized by the prefecture of Isère.