According to the opponents of the ecological mayor, the clothing policy in the city’s swimming pools goes against the decision of the Council of State which prohibits the full swimsuit.
Le Monde with AFP
The question of swimwear does not stop waving the Grenoble municipal council. The opposition to the ecological mayor, Eric Piolle, said, Friday, August 12, having filed a complaint against him, on the grounds that the clothing policy in the swimming pools of the city contradicts, according to her, the recent decision of the Council of State, prohibiting the port of burkini.
“It is up to any public body to ensure the neutrality of the public service,” said Agence France-Presse (AFP) Alain Carignon, former mayor and president of the municipal opposition group “Civil society, Various right, center “. According to him, “Eric Piolle contravenes the decision of the highest French administrative jurisdiction” by having “expressly authorized the intrusion into the Grenoble women’s swimming pool in Burkini”, July 28.
The mayor considers on the contrary that the entries authorized in the municipal swimming pools – that day in particular – comply with the decision of the Council of State, prohibiting female combinations intended for Orthodox Muslims – with skirt – but not the Combinations adjusted to the body. The entry of three women in covering outfit adjusted in the Jean Bron swimming pool had aroused outlined in the municipal opposition at the end of July, with waves of reactions on social networks.
At the time, the town hall said that everything was done in accordance with the decisions of the administrative court and the Council of State concerning the regulations of its municipal swimming pools, since the authorized covering jerseys had no skirts, And were therefore not Burkinis. Solicited by AFP, Eric Piolle did not wish to comment on Friday.
Seized by the town hall – After suspension of the text in the administrative court at the end of May -, the Council of State confirmed on June 21 that “the very targeted derogation brought, to satisfy a religious claim, to the rules of ordinary law of port Bath outfits near the body, enacted for patterns of hygiene and safety, is likely to affect the proper functioning of the public service and the equal treatment of users, under conditions undermining the principle of neutrality of services audiences “.
” A great law “
The question has occupied part of the political world since the Grenoble municipal council modified the internal regulations of municipal pools on May 16. Approaching the legislative elections, this decision had provided, to right and far right officials, a new reason to accuse the left of complacency with Islamism.
“It is obviously necessary a great law” against the burkini, had considered Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the national rally, on May 26 on France 2. Christian Jacob, then boss of the Les Républicains party, had called, the same Day on RTL, to be taken over the bill tabled in May by his comrade Eric Ciotti, aimed at banning burkini in public pools in the name of secularism. Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, had expressed his intention to cut subsidies to the city of Grenoble.