The Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region has decided to maintain the suspension of its subsidies to the city of Grenoble despite the decision rendered this Tuesday, June 21 by the Council of State about the burkini in the swimming pools of Grenoble. The highest administrative court in the country has confirmed its ban and therefore rejects the appeal filed by the city of Grenoble.
Laurent Wauquiez, president of Les Républicains de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, had indicated that the deliberation of the City of Grenoble authorizing this garment (in the internal rules of the swimming pools) was “in total rupture with all the values of the Republic, a a sign of female submission, a symbol of political Islam. She is the sign of a pact with political Islam. We will not be complicit in this maneuver of submission.”_
Last March, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region adopted – during its plenary assembly – a “Charter for the defense of the values of France and secularism”. In particular, it makes it possible to suspend aid from the Region “to structures that do not respect our republican values”. The Region wishes to integrate the arguments of the Council of State within the charter. It will therefore “soon be the subject of an amendment”. Waiting, it announces to suspend subsidies to the city of Grenoble until the mayor, Eric Piolle, has signed this charter.