France’s highest court ruled against the “burkini” in public swimming facilities on Tuesday, but did not follow the crackdown on naked women.
The Council of State of France, the country’s highest administrative court, ruled that allowing the burkini swimsuit – a one-piece, modest swimsuit worn by Muslims – would violate the nation’s secular government and anti-religious laws.
Shortly after the ban was lifted, it was restored by the Grenoble Administrative Court. The decision of the Council of State on the issue has been expected for weeks. Burkina Faso had previously been legalized by the city of Grenoble in May 2021, along with topless swimming, after residents shouted.
The Council of State overturned lower court rulings allowing the burkini, saying the religious nature of the garment and its impact on women’s rights make it unsuitable for public swimming pools.
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Algerians wear “burkini” at sea on the beach of Oran, west of Algeria on August 5, 2017. (Billal Bensalem / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Muslim woman wearing a burqa enjoying the hot water in the Gulf of Mexico at San Marco Beach on Marco Island, Florida, on September 1, 2018. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)
France, the birthplace of the bikini, has been fighting for years with its models in women’s swimwear.
In 2016, swimwear became controversial following an Islamic extremist attack in the French city of Nice. Cities began banning burqas, with police imposing fines on Muslim women who wore them and refusing to take off some of their clothes or leave the beach.
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Grenoble Mayor Eric Piolle (L) of the French Green Party EELV, next to his first deputy Elisa Martin (C), is chairing a town council meeting to repeal the swimwear code in municipal swimming pools and thus authorize the use of of the “burkini” all-in-one women’s swimsuit, on May 16, 2022 in Grenoble. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP via Getty Images)
France is not alone in the growing debate over swimwear and its scarcity. Nude laws banning topless women on the beach have been challenged and sometimes overturned throughout the United States.
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ONE Nantucket, Massachusetts The proposal entitled “Gender equality on the beaches” that allows anyone to go topless on the beaches was approved last month at the annual meeting of the city.
The amendment read: “To promote equality for all people, every person is allowed to be topless on any public or private beach” in the city.
The regulation, nominated by Dorothy Stover, a seventh-generation Nantucket resident, was approved by 327-242 votes on Gender Equality on the Beaches, according to the WCVB. The next step is for the measure to be approved now by the Attorney General’s Office.
Fox News’ Haley Chi-Sing and the New York Post contributed to this report.
Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and email him at [email protected]
