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Citizens' Alliance: investigation of burkini activists

2022-05-25T18:06:05.704Z


Founded in 2012 in Grenoble, before spreading throughout France, the association now claims more than 5,000 members.


HLM tenants who

"fight for their rights"

, residents

"standing up for climate justice"

,

"disabled citizens"

fighting for

"freedom of movement"

,

"Muslim women"

who want to play sports

"like everyone”…

At Citizen Alliance, we advocate an

“intersectional”

approach to struggles.

With a lot of

"actions of civil disobedience"

and tirades on

"living together"

, the association has already obtained

"great victories"

since its creation in 2012, rejoices its co-president, Sana Souid: a better welcome foreign students by the administration, energy renovations in the districts and, above all, the authorization of the burkini, last week, in the municipal swimming pools of Grenoble.

More than 5000 members

A

“progressive advance”

which is however not entirely acquired: the prefect of Isère seized the administrative court of a secularism summary, while the municipal opposition promised to

“develop all the other legal means

to get

Cancellation…

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Source: lefigaro

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