Nothing: included burkini France simply does not find peace. On the one hand, the secular state, the indisputable cornerstone, untouchable for every Frenchman who honors Republicand on the other – the famous and widely known liberteA: Religious faith and dress as you wish, even in the pool. How do we say it? Grenoble recently ventured free everything. After demonstrations, protests and petitions civil activists burkini Alliance Citoyenne, mayor of the city, Eric Piol, in consultation with the city council, decided that in the public pools of the city everyone can finally dress the way he likes: yes, in burkinis, yes, topless (scandal!), Yes, men’s suits take longer, until now since forbidden. It is a pity that now the State Council has blown everything up with a clear coup.
As he tells El France, France’s highest administrative court confirmed the ban on full-length burkini swimsuits in public swimming pools.. In fact, the dispute was referred to the Council of State after a local court in Grenoble appealed to suspend the ban, arguing that it seriously violated the principle of neutrality in public services. In truth, the provision was designed specifically to be in the name of Egalite therefore, not only the liberalization of the burkini, but the end of all those that the mayor defined as “absurd restrictions” on bathing suits. Men, for example, in France are usually forced to wear tight swimming trunks, apparently for “hygienic reasons.”
The Council of State, on the other hand, found in its decision that “contrary to the declared purpose of the municipality” the new internal regulations for public swimming pools “it was aimed solely at allowing the use of the burkini to satisfy needs of a religious nature”. Therefore, everything will remain the same as always (including the ability to go to the beach in a full bathing suit) also because, in addition to the burkini in the pool, there was also a lot of turmoil on the issue of topless, considered simply unacceptable by conservatives. So the question arises spontaneously at this point. The secular state and the debate about the veil is fine, but isn’t the main problem here also and primarily related to the control of the female body, be it in one sense or another?
Source: Elle