Will the wearing of the burkini be authorized in the swimming pools of Grenoble?

• In a letter sent Friday to the President of the Republic, Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble indicates "to ensure that no internal regulations of any public equipment constitute an injunction or discrimination" in his city.

• The opposition has strongly stepped up, believing that it is a desire to authorize the wearing of the burkini in municipal swimming pools and affirming that this decision will be submitted to the municipal council on May 16.

• Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, is already threatening to "cut all subsidies" to the city of Grenoble if this measure were passed.

Will the environmentalist mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle ask that the wearing of the burkini be authorized in municipal swimming pools?

The information has not been formalized or confirmed by the person concerned.

The town hall, which

has contacted, has not reacted for the moment, but already the opposition is upwind.

In a tweet published on Monday, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez "warns" the elected official, threatening him to "cut all subsidies" to the city of Grenoble if this decision were to be applied.

“Not a penny of the Auvergnats-Rhonalpins will finance your submission to Islamism,” he warns.

Mr. Piolle plans to authorize the burkini in municipal swimming pools.

I warn the mayor: in this case, the Region will cut all subsidies to the city of Grenoble.

Not a penny of the Auvergnats-Rhônalpins will finance your submission to Islamism.

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— Laurent Wauquiez (@laurentwauquiez) May 2, 2022

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The doubts arose from a letter that the environmentalist sent to Emmanuel Macron on Friday.

A long missive in which the mayor of Isère challenges the President of the Republic on the IPCC report but also on secularism.

In particular, he indicates that he wants to “ensure that no internal regulations for any public facility constitute an injunction or discrimination” in his city.

“He wants to go strong”

If Eric Piolle never mentions distinctive religious signs or does not speak of clothing, others have clearly seen the desire to authorize the burkini in municipal swimming pools.

Starting with the former mayor of the city Alain Carignon, now an active member of the opposition.

In a tweet posted on Friday, the man says the measure will be presented at the next city council on May 16.

“Eric Piolle is not mandated to support political Islamism”, he believes, calling on the inhabitants to come and demonstrate on the sidelines of the council to “demand a referendum”.

🛑 Today @EricPiolle formalizes that he will propose the authorization of #Burkini in the swimming pools on May 16th to the Municipal Council: I call on the Grenoble residents to come that day to demand a referendum.

It is not mandated to support political Islamism.

— Alain Carignon (@CarignonAlain) April 29, 2022

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“He lied by saying that the decision was not made concerning the burkini!

She is.

He notified the commissions of the new swimming pool regulations which in fact authorize this.

He wanted to hide his decision as long as possible from Grenoble because he wants to force through, ”accused Alain Carignon, interviewed on Monday by

.

Socialists and relatives against this project

"By yielding to a claim that plays into the hands of Islamist communitarianism and which is a regression for the emancipation of women, EELV further accelerates its drift," said Clément Chappet, Republican candidate in the third constituency of Isère. in the legislative elections.

In the ranks of the left, the elected Nouvel Air, socialists and relatives have "clearly and firmly" reaffirmed their "opposition to this deliberation".

"This text divides our municipal council but also the majority itself, many elected officials being aware that the burkini is neither a simple swimsuit, nor a bathing suit like the others", they underline in a press release.

Before calling on their colleagues on the municipal council “to meet on the essentials by not giving their approval to a decision of such gravity.

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