It is today that the authorization to wear the burkini in the swimming pools will be deliberated and submitted to the vote of the municipal council of Grenoble.
Since this announcement, the controversy has swelled in the political sphere for several days.
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The mayor of Europe Ecology Les Verts de la ville, Éric Piolle, has deplored a "
non-subject
" from the start.
According to the city councilor, the authorization of this garment in the basins would have no other objective than "
to ensure equal access to public services, and the freedom to dress or undress, with respect for health and safety
”.
“
Allowing everyone to cool off, dressed or undressed, covered breast or bare breast, within the framework of the law, this is the basis of public service.
It's equality, simply
put,” the mayor tweeted.
“
Eric Piolle's demonstration makes no sense from an intellectual point of view and it is scandalous from a moral point of view
”, castigated François-Xavier Bellamy for his part.
Invited to Europe 1, the MEP Les Républicains deplored the vote of the municipal council “
in which part of the left is losing its soul
”.
"
When we see that the mayor of Grenoble explain that the burkini is 'social progress', at a time when in Afghanistan, women are risking their lives because they dare to demonstrate against the burqa...
"
At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, François-Xavier Bellamy regretted a feeling
of "betrayal
".
“
Betrayal of the cause of women's rights but also a betrayal of what the left has stood for for decades.
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