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Full-body swimwear including the burkini should not be worn in public pools in the city of Grenoble, France's top administrative court ruled on Tuesday, ...

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Grenoble city council tried to approve the full-body swimsuits, but a high-level court says no.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has condemned the burkini as "clothing of Islamist propaganda". - The name is a mix of the words "burka" and "bikini"

France's top administrative court on Tuesday ruled against allowing swimmers to wear full-body “burkini” swimwear for religious reasons in public pools, ...

The Council of State on Tuesday upheld that decision, saying in a statement that Grenoble's initial approval of the burkini was made simply “to satisfy a religious demand” and saying the decision undermines “the neutrality of public services”. The city also voted to allow women to swim topless as part of a broader relaxation of swimwear rules. Led by a mayor from the Green party, the city of Grenoble voted in May to allow women to wear burkinis in public pools after campaigning by local activists.

The world is burning and France is fixated on whether women wear long sleeves to have a swim – a furore with obvious roots in the county's deep Islamophobia ...

While it may be dressed up with arguments about secularism ( laïcité deep Islamophobia. However, to be fair, there is more to it than just hatred of Muslims; there are also weird ideas about hygiene. But it seems a strange thing to fixate on, considering swimming pools are generally full of chlorine. The French are obsessed (OBSESSED!) with debating the question of appropriate swimwear and it is getting very cringe. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen declared that green-lighting burkinis was “how Islamist fundamentalists take over”. (Got to keep those fundamentalists at bay by persecuting any woman who wants to wear long sleeves for a swim.) Meanwhile, the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, described Grenoble city council’s policy as an “unacceptable provocation”. Speaking last week to National Public Radio in the US, the mayor of Grenoble noted that the burkini decision “touched some very intense emotions for people”. With all due respect, those people ought to find a therapist to deal with those intense emotions. The head-to-toe swimsuit, most often associated with Muslim women, was banned in a number of French towns several years ago. Burkinis disappeared from the headlines for a bit owing to more pressing issues such as the global pandemic and war in Ukraine. I regret to report that they are back in the news because, last month, the city of Grenoble decided to let people swim in burkinis.

France's top administrative court has ruled against allowing body-covering “burkini” swimwear in public pools for religious reasons.

(French authorities) look at Muslim women through a single prism.” She blamed a leftover colonial-era “fixation with the body of Muslim women by politicians who want to control them.” The city of Grenoble, led by a mayor from the Greens party, voted last month to allow women to wear burkinis in public pools after campaigning by local activists. The Grenoble mayor argued that women should be able to wear what they want and express their religious conviction in pools like in the street.

City council had voted to allow the body-covering swimwear worn by many Muslim women.

Grenoble responded by taking its legal fight to the Conseil d’Etat. The city’s move was challenged by the government and a lower administrative court suspended the measure. Full-body swimwear including burkinis should not be worn in public pools in the city of Grenoble, France’s top administrative court ruled on Tuesday, upholding an earlier order by a lower court.

A senior government official hailed the ruling as a victory "against separatism, for secularism."

The restrictions were eventually overturned — also by the Council of State — for being discriminatory. The LDH had backed Grenoble's rule change over swimwear. Led by Green party mayor Eric Piolle, Grenoble had in May changed its swimming pool rules to allow all types of bathing suits and for women to bathe topless. risks affecting the proper functioning of public services and equal treatment of their users" the Council of State ruled Tuesday. The city council in Grenoble said in a statement Tuesday evening that it took note of the court ruling, while regretting that the court had attributed views to the council that it did not hold. They ruled Tuesday that "contrary to the objective declared by the city of Grenoble, the change to the pool rules aimed only to authorize wearing of the 'burkini.'"