Everything that ends well? François Bayrou convened several of his ministers to Matignon this Tuesday afternoon after divergent positions when using the veil in sport. What, obviously, reaches a common position between the Minister of Education, Elisabeth, Borne, Gérald Darmanin (Justice), Marie Barsacq (Sports) and Bruno Retailleau (Interior) and Aurore Bergé (gender equality).
“The prime minister recalled that using the veil was not authorized in sports competitions. Therefore, there is no subject,” said Darmanin Gérald relative with BFMTV.
“Unacceptable internal criticisms”
Proof that the moment was serious: until now, the Head of Government has always accommodated contrasting expressions in the ministerial ranks, as in the land law in Mayotte or the prohibition of the veil for the guides of the school outputs.
“The internal criticisms between the ministers are unacceptable,” even the prime minister prevailed against Central Block executives on Tuesday morning.
The sequence that Murignon has aroused the wrath has begun in recent days. Upon listening for the deputies, the Minister of Sports warned March 13 against the “confusion” and the “amalgams” between using the radicalization of the veil and the Islamist in the sport.
“The subjects of radicalization in sport are another issue than the subject of the use of the veil and the religious badge,” he insisted.
Retaille “in radical disagreement” with the Minister of Sports
These comments strongly disliked the Interior Minister of Bruno Retailleau who explained last Saturday in Le Parisien “in radical disagreement” with her.
It should be said that the tenant of the Beauvau place fiercely supports a draft LR law in the Senate to ban the veil in sports competitions, adopted in pain on February 18 at the Luxembourg Palace.
At that time, several sports federations, such as basketball and football, have already banished the use of religious outfits of their competitions and indicate it in their internal regulations. But this is not a legal obligation.
The text defended by the senators aimed to prohibit the use of religious signs in all “federations and affiliated associations.”
A text in the Senate that occupies the details of the State Council
The Government finally had an amendment adopted in this bill that limited the prohibition of ostentatious religious signs “to sports competitions organized only by the delegated federations of the public service.” This possibility has already been withdrawn by the State Council in its June 2023 decision after its seizure by the Hijabeuse football team.
“The sports federations, responsible for guaranteeing the proper functioning of the public service whose administration are entrusted, can impose on their players an obligation of neutrality during competitions and sporting events to guarantee the operation without problems of the matches and prevent confrontation or confrontation,” explained at the time in the State Council in a press release, but they are not seen in all forced.
Following the passage of weapons between the Minister of Sports and the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of National Education Elisabeth Borne had estimated in France information that was “responsibility of the sports federations to define their internal regulations” and, therefore, choose or not prohibit the use of the veil.
“A meeting that has been sought”
Answer of the Seals Gérald Darmanin Guardian so far in silence on the subject this Tuesday in TF1: “We must prohibit the use of veil in sports competitions, it is obvious.” The pressure has still increased a bit when the former Interior Minister watched his resignation if the Government did not support the Senate bill.
Suffice it to say that François Bayrou, already confronted with the wrath of Bruno Retailleau on the issue of the archive with Algeria, did not want to open a new front of tensions with his Minister of Justice.
“The prime minister decided. He supports the Senate bill,” said one of the participants in the meeting while regretting “a meeting that should have been fast and was dodge.”
“We now expect this meeting to bring everyone back to La Razón. We are not on a kindergarten court. Bruno Retilleau has already threatened to resign, now Gérald Darmanin … is the game of the short scale,” said one of the ministers present in Matignon.
“Only a line within the government”
Therefore, instructions were made so that only the position determined by François Bayrou were heard. The message was received 100% by Aurore Bergé.
Arrested during current problems in the Government, the minister responsible for the fight against discrimination said there was only one line within the government “on the question of veil in sport, summarizing” there is no ostentatious religious sign in sports competitions. “
As for Elisabeth Borne and Marie Barsacq, they officially see any rethinking.
The proposal of the Senate Law “reconciles the prohibition of religious signs in sports competitions” when the federations wish or are forced to the neutrality of the public service and offer “the possibility of all and all to do sports outside these competitions,” said Sports Minister to BFMTV.
120 reported clubs
“Sports federations have the possibility of prohibiting the use of veil in their regulations, so there is already a framework to protect secularism,” he said near the Minister of National Education.
Comment by Bruno Retilleau in X after the cut of François Bayrou: “The entrance of the movements” linked to the Musumanos brothers “in sports associations is a reality that must mobilize us all.”
Since the promulgation of the law against separatisms in 2021, 120 160,000 clubs have been subject to a report for violating respect for the principles of the Republic. Only one of them was subject to a closure, according to Figures of Senator PS Jean-Jacques Lozach.
Source: BFM TV
