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French court scraps rule allowing burkinis in city's swimming pools

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin said that allowing burkinis in Grenoble's municipal pools was undermining secularism.

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A French administrative court has suspended the city of Grenoble’s decision to allow body-covering “burkini” bathing suits for women in municipal pools, interior minister Gérald Darmanin said on his Twitter feed, reports The Indian Express

Darmanin said his ministry had filed an objection against the burkini permit in Grenoble, an ecologist-run city in the French Alps, close to Italy.

“The administrative court considers that the mayor of Grenoble, with his decision allowing burkinis in municipal pools, is seriously undermining secularism,” Darmanin said.

The municipal council of Grenoble, following a proposal by its ecologist mayor Éric Piolle, had voted in favour of allowing the use of burkinis on May 16, sparking howls of protest from conservative and far-right politicians.

Read more of this Reuters report published by The Indian Express.