Burkinis in Grenoble. The municipal opposition files a complaint against Mayor Eric Piole

Grenoble’s municipal opposition said on Friday, August 12, that it had filed a complaint against the city’s environmental mayor, Eric Piolet, that the clothing policy in municipal swimming pools contradicts, according to it, the latest decision of the Council of State, which prohibits wearing. from the burkini.

“Ensuring the neutrality of the public service is the task of any state body“Alain Carignon, former mayor and president of the municipal opposition group, told AFP.”civil society, different right, odd“. According to him, “Eric Piol defies the decision of France’s highest administrative court“having”openly allowed burkini-clad women to invade Grenoble’s swimming poolLast July 28. The mayor, on the other hand, considers that the permitted entrances to municipal swimming pools, particularly on this day, are in accordance with the State Council decision, which prohibits orthodox Muslim female combinations with skirts, but not tailored. to the body.

The entry of three women into the Jean Breaux swimming pool in fitted covers raised an outcry from opposition from the municipality in late July, with a flood of reactions on social media. At the time, the municipality, however, confirmed that everything was done in accordance with the decisions of the administrative court and the Council of State regarding the regulation of its municipal swimming pools, because the authorized swimsuits did not have skirts and were not. no burkini. The issue of clothing has stirred the political world since Grenoble’s city council changed the rules of procedure for municipal swimming pools on May 16.

After the suspension of the text in the administrative court at the end of May, the State Council, confiscated by the municipality, confirmed on June 21 that “A highly targeted departure from the common law rules of bathing suits accepted for health and safety reasons to satisfy a religious requirement is likely to affect the proper operation of a public service and the equal treatment of users. which undermine the principle of neutrality of public services“. Eric Piol declined to comment on Friday when asked by AFP.