A veiled woman on a sign in the city of Nantes attracts criticism

• The photo of a veiled woman appeared on a panel in the city of Nantes, sparking controversy among right-wing elected officials and on social networks.

• The socialist town hall, which has since removed the poster, speaks of an “internal error”.

“The city of Nantes puts forward a veiled woman, then withdraws the poster in disaster.

Promoting the veil is a political fault, an attack on secularism.

“The tweet of Laurence Garnier, leader of the Nantes opposition (LR) set fire to the powder this Thursday on social networks, around a subject which is already agitating the presidential campaign.

All day, messages have pinned the socialist municipality, asking him in particular to explain himself on this poster, stuck on a panel in the city of Nantes, relayed thousands of times.

Yes dear @LGarnier44 What a rout, what a moral defeat to celebrate women in enslavement, inferiorization

The #veil is a ban on freedom a ban on equality a ban on fraternity https://t.co/prEFushUN1

— Valerie Boyer (@valerieboyer13) February 17, 2022

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It shows the face of a veiled woman alongside the city's logo.

“Choosing a veiled woman, symbol of submission, for the month of the woman, here is where we are in Nantes”, was moved the municipal councilor LR Foulques Chombart de Lauwe.

A controversy that echoes that aroused a few months ago by a Council of Europe campaign.

An "internal error"

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, the town hall of Nantes speaks for its part of an "internal error, of a technical nature".

According to the city, this poster (yet printed and pasted by the services) had nothing to do with this panel, normally reserved for association projects subsidized by the town hall, which is not the case for this one.

This display "was made outside the usual procedures, it also presents a logo which does not correspond to our visual charter", adds the town hall, which specifies that it only concerned a single panel, since covered.

“While waiting for a better understanding of how this error could have occurred, we have no lesson to receive on secularism, and certainly not from elected officials who supported the Manif pour tous, indicates Bassem Asseh , first deputy to the city of Nantes.

Can a community promote a religious sign?

Of course not”, continues the elected official who accuses the right of “jumping on the slightest subject to fire all wood, in an electoral period where identity issues are very present”.

Organized last year in several shopping centers in the Nantes agglomeration, the “Visages des Nantes” project is a photo exhibition presenting the portraits and journeys of 50 inhabitants, as part of Women’s Rights Day in March.

It does not appear in the program of events supported by the city this year.

“We receive and study hundreds of grant applications, and this one was not clear,” says Bassem Asseh.

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