Like every year, the Béziers crèche is talked about.
Friday, December 2, the Christmas crib was indeed inaugurated in the town of Hérault in front of hundreds of people and installed in the courtyard of the town hall in the presence of the mayor Robert Ménard.
An installation that is once again controversial, reports
La Dépêche
.
A strange soap opera that has been going on for eight years now.
It all started in 2014, when Robert Ménard had his figurines installed in the hall of his town hall.
A Biterrois and the Human Rights League then seized the administrative court to remove this Christmas emblem installed in the town hall, under the law of December 9, 1905 on the separation of Churches and State.
The administrative court of Montpellier then gives reason to the city councilor.
After many legal back and forths over the years, the Council of State definitively challenged the decision of the mayor of Béziers in 2017, asking him to withdraw the crèche.
Without success.
The prefecture of Hérault then seized the administrative court of Montpellier in 2018, denouncing a "
deliberate will of the mayor of Béziers not to respect the principles of secularism of the Republic
".
