The announcement caused controversy: the authorization to wear burkini in swimming pools will depend on the vote of the Grenoble City Council, which will take place on May 16.
This, explained Mayor Éric Piolle (Europe Écologie Les Verts), in order to "
ensure equal access to public services, and the freedom to dress or undress, while respecting hygiene and security
”.
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The president Les Républicains of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez has consequently threatened to deprive the city of Grenoble of regional subsidies.
“
I put the mayor on notice
,” he said on Twitter.
Not a penny of the Auvergnats-Rhônalpins will finance your submission to Islamism.
»
"
His crusade against the veil, Laurent Wauquiez can lead
it in his trains", retorted the mayor of the city on France 2, this morning: "
He is responsible for the regional express trains, that he prohibits the veil there and that he leaves the swimming pools of Grenoble alone.
»
Éric Piolle again deplored a "
controversy
" around a "
non-subject
".
“
At the swimming pool, the law of 1905 applies.
At
the swimming pool, you can express your political, philosophical and religious convictions as you can in the street
", he continued, assuring that he "does not
defend[ait] not the burkini
": "
I raise discriminatory prohibitions.
»