The nativity figures have been removed from the crib installed in the patio of the town hall of Perpignan.
Seized by the League of Human Rights, the administrative court of Montpellier had ordered the dismantling of the crèche on December 21, under the 1905 law on secularism.
The decision was accompanied by a penalty payment of one hundred euros per day of delay.
After the court decision, the city council, led by mayor Louis Aliot (RN), announced its intention to keep the crèche as it was until the end of the holidays.
And pay the fine.
A decision supported by a large part of the opposition, in particular the former municipal majority which had installed an identical nursery during the previous mandate of Jean-Marc Pujol (LR).
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Their installation, at the time, had not been the subject of a ban by the courts.
"From the moment when the former elected officials that we are, had made this decision, we do not see why today it seems that we do not agree", explains, to France Bleu Roussillon, Chantal Bruzi (DVD) .
After the announcement of the decision of the administrative court of Montpellier, Louis Aliot had announced his intention to appeal this judgment, in the name of "the specificity of the Pessebre [the Catalan crèche] in Roussillon and in the Catalan country, which corresponds to our culture, our traditions and which has passed into the secular domain".
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