France closes a sports association for reserving gym and municipal pool rooms for women wearing the Islamic veil.
The association privatised a weights room in the municipal sports complex three afternoons a week and several pool sessions for women wearing the Islamic veil. The prefecture reminds us that public spaces cannot be organised according to religious criteria.
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The prefect of the Hauts-de-Seine, Alexandre Brugère, once again attacks Islamist separatism. A few months ago, He closed a Salafist Quranic school disguised as a language academy. in Colombres. Now, eLe Figaro explains, The same prefect has ordered the closure of a sports association in Villeneuve-la-Garenne for Privatise sections of the municipal gym and swimming pool for women wearing the Islamic veil..
They have broken the Republican contract
The message from the prefecture is clear: An association that signs the Republican Commitment Contract cannot reserve public spaces on religious grounds. This contract requires respect for secularism, equality and non-discrimination. Therefore, Brugère warns that The lanes reserved in a gym or a municipal swimming pool cannot depend on the religious affiliation of the users.. The Republic draws the line here: Public facilities are not community spaces serving a religious norm..
The closure order refers to administrative infringements and the profile of the association's founder. According to The Figaro, The organiser had been convicted several times and was prohibited from serving as an educator or manager in a physical and sporting activities facility. During an inspection on 24 February, he also presented an expired sports instructor's card, and the state services also noted the absence of the mandatory insurance certificate.
The association's monitoring over weeks points to a deeper concern: the prefecture suspected that, behind an apparently ordinary sporting activity, women-only sessions were being organised on religious grounds.
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