INTERVIEW
The war of words continues between the executive and the mayor of Grenoble. Four days after a punch operation of women wearing Burkinis in a pool in the city, Eric Piolle, himself criticized by Marlene Schiappa for its "ambiguity," Thursday called on the government to "come out of his hypocrisy".
"There is no need to intrude and breach of the rules, we have verbalized, and we will continue to do so in case of non-compliance with this regulation," first recalled the microphone Europe 1 the ecologist mayor.
Tuesday, in the columns of liberated Dauphine , the Secretary of State for Equality between women and men Marlene Schiappa had regretted "the ambiguity in which the Mayor of Grenoble by not intervening strongly to defend the rights women and the values of the Republic ".
"It's not up to the mayor to decide what republican equality is"
"If the look that the government wants to take is a look at secularism, and if it means that swimming pools are a sacred place in which we do not need religious symbols as in schools, let it openly say rather What to say everything and its opposite (...), both that we must defend the right of women and we must welcome everyone in the pool, "he castigates.
For, insists Eric Piolle, "it is not up to the mayor to decide what is republican equality," pointing to "state hypocrisy." "The sport code is very clear: in swimming pools, the regulations are based on hygiene and safety (...) When we discuss these regulations, we do not discuss with the religious, who have nothing to do in establishing swimming pool regulations as in any other municipal by-law establishment ".