The Minister of the Interior asked the Prefect of Isère to block the measure of the Grenoble municipal council, which authorized, on Monday, the port of burkini in the city’s swimming pools.
Le Monde with AFP
Nearly 24 hours after the City of Grenoble’s decision to authorize the wearing of burkini in its municipal swimming pools, Gérald Darmanin reacted. “Mr. Piolle, support of Mr. Mélenchon, plays the unacceptable community provocation, contrary to our values,” tweeted the Minister of the Interior of the resigning government. “I gave instruction to the prefect to refer” the secularism “the deliberation allowing the wearing of the” burkini “and, if necessary, to ask for the withdrawal,” he added.
m. Piolle, support from Mr. Melenchon, plays the unacceptable community provocation, contrary to our values. I have… https://t.co/qktk3q4140
– gdarmanin (@Gérald Darmanin)
The Grenoble Municipal Council, led by the ecologist mayor Eric Piolle, validated on Monday by a short majority a modification of the internal regulations of the pools, resulting in the authorization of the port of Burkini.
The prefectural referral mentioned by Mr. Darmanin is part of the legality control of the acts of local authorities. 2> “Reread the law of 1905”
“Darmanin, the minister who has the balance of the separatism law, who finds Marine Le Pen too soft, protests the halal and kosher rays of the stores, allows himself to give lessons? Reread the law of 1905, rather than To twist it “, .
The prefect of Isère had already made known Sunday evening, before the deliberation of the municipal council, which he would seize the administrative court of Grenoble to block the measure, on the investigation of Gérald Darmanin. To do this, it should appeal to a provision introduced by the law on separatism voted in August 2021, which concerns acts “seriously affected the principle of secularism and neutrality of the public service”.
m. Piolle, who invoked a “feminist” fight, “health” and “secularism”, said on Monday “delighted that the government attacks us”, noting that he had “not attacked Rennes” when this city had made a similar provision four years ago.
The port of Burkini was claimed by the controversial Citizen Alliance Association, which has organized several punch operations since 2019 in the Grenoble swimming pools to get your message across.
The president (the republicans) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, accused Eric Piolle of “definitively acting his break with the secularism and the values of our Republic” and announced to cut subsidies from the region to the municipality.