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Grenoble: Gérald Darmanin asks the prefect to suspend the authorization to wear burkini in swimming pools

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The Minister of the Interior carried out his threat. In a tweet published on Tuesday, Gérald Darmanin castigates “the unacceptable community provocation” about the decision to authorize the use of the burkini in the swimming pools of Grenoble, by the city council of the city Monday evening and which has been controversial since. Several weeks. He adds a political dimension to it by recalling that the mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, is a supporter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the middle of the legislative campaign.

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“Mr. Piolle, support of Mr. Mélenchon, plays the unacceptable community provocation, contrary to our values. I instructed the prefect to refer to “secularism” the deliberation allowing the wearing of the “Burkini” and, if necessary, to request its withdrawal”, wrote the still tenant of Place Beauvau pending the constitution of a new government led by Elisabeth Borne.

Indeed, the “Separatism law”, adopted last year, introduced the possibility for prefects to request the suspension of the execution of an act of a community that would seriously undermine “the principles of secularism and neutrality of public services”. After a referral by the prefect, it will be up to the judge to decide whether or not to suspend the decision in question.

As of Sunday, the prefecture of Isère had announced that the prefect would ask the administrative court to cancel the authorization of the burkini at the swimming pool if the municipal council of Grenoble modified the regulations of swimming pools in this direction. “In accordance with the instructions he received from the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the prefect of Isère will seize the administrative court of Grenoble in the event of adoption of this deliberation”, indicated the prefecture in a press release.

This decision “seems to contravene the principle of secularism” for the prefecture of Isère

This deliberation, “whose manifest objective is to yield to communitarian demands with religious aims, appears 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,” the statement added. But “the mayor, within the framework of his powers, if he must guarantee the religious freedom of his constituents, must also ensure that these rules are respected”, according to the prefecture.

The Grenoble city council gave the green light on Monday to wearing the burkini in municipal swimming pools, after a tight vote on a divisive theme, at the heart of a national controversy for weeks. Ecologist mayor Éric Piolle, at the head of a broad left-wing coalition, managed to muster the necessary number of votes, although 13 members of his own majority declared themselves “in disagreement” and dissociated themselves from this very sensitive vote. .

The deliberation was adopted by 29 votes for, 27 against and two abstentions, after 2h30 of sometimes tense debates.

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