the statue of Saint-Michel des Sables-d’Olonne will have to be dismantled in the name of secularism, confirms the Council of State

The Council of State rejects, Friday, April 7, the appeal of the city of Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée), which will have to dismantle its statue of Saint-Michel, learned France Bleu Loire Océan. In the name of the separation of Church and State, the Council of State did not admit the appeal of the town of Les Sables d’Olonne and therefore ordered it to definitively dismantle the statue of Saint-Michel.

The sculpture was installed in 2018 in a public square, in front of the church of the same name. The Vendée Federation of Free Thought then took legal action. The administrative court, then the administrative court of appeal had already asked the city to move this statue in the name of the separation of Church and State.

“We will find a solution so that it remains in front of the Saint-Michel church”

“I will not contest the court decision”indicates the DVD mayor of Les Sables-d’Olonne, Yannick Moreau. “As mayor, I will not challenge the court decision. Our statue is called to be unbolted, but the will and the vote of the Sablais will be respected: we will find a solution so that it remains in front of the Saint-Michel church. “, he said in a press release on Friday. In March 2022 the city organized a referendum where 94% of the 4593 voters supported keeping the statue in the square.

On his Twitter account, the city councilor denounces “the storm of wokism and cancelculture [qui] fell on Les Sables-d’Olonne”. In his press release, Yannick Moreau expresses his “Misunderstanding, the Council of State washes its hands of it, in a hurry to put an end to it, it does not admit our appeal in cassation and definitively condemns our statue. Happy must be the few ayatollahs who won this absurd trial. so much worse for the victims”.

He says to himself “flabbergasted, revolted” : “The ‘Woke’ storm hit Les Sables-d’Olonne. If the Republic is secular, France is indeed Christian.”