Alexandre Chauveau 8:15 a.m., May 4, 2022, modified at 8:16 a.m., May 4, 2022

Laurent Wauquiez threatens to cut subsidies to the city of Grenoble if the mayor, Éric Piolle, authorizes the wearing of the burkini in his swimming pools.

The question must be decided at the municipal council meeting on May 16.

"Not a penny will finance your submission to Islamism", says the president of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, who explains it at the microphone of Europe 1.

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Éric Piolle, the EELV mayor of Grenoble, has confirmed his desire to change the rules for municipal swimming pools, which would allow all the prohibitions in force to be lifted and in particular to authorize the wearing of the burkini.

Laurent Wauquiez threatens to cut subsidies to the city of Grenoble if the mayor authorizes it in its swimming pools.

He explains his position at the microphone of Europe 1. 

Éric Piolle "compacts with political Islam"

"For me what matters is not to blackmail the subsidy, what matters is to send a signal. And to say stop. We are not going to look away. We are not going to do seeming to be anecdotal that an elected representative of the Republic agrees to make a pact with political Islam", explains the president of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, who does not wish to continue "working with the mayor of Grenoble as if nothing is wrong. was, when we have an elected official who accepts an absolute symbol of male-female discrimination."

"We do not ask men to cover their bodies on the pretext that they would be objects of temptation or that it would be immodest", he continues at the microphone of Europe 1.

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Regression"

According to Laurent Wauquiez, the authorization to wear the burkini in swimming pools would be a "regression".

"In the name of what in our country, France, which has taken so long to conquer this equality between men and women, we will end up with this regression, in a public service managed by a town hall, to install the wearing of the burkini" , he says.

"My goal is also at some point to raise a warning signal, and to say be careful, wake up".