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“CThis crib will keep there! » In Beaucaire (Gard), the combat across the Christmas nativity scene put in on the city corridor continues. Despite the ban determined by the executive court docket of Nîmes, the mayor RN, Nelson Chaudon, refuses to take away the crèche and even calls on the inhabitants of the city to make donations to finance that of subsequent 12 months.

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On Friday, December 20, the courts, seized by the Human Rights League, had nonetheless dominated: there can’t be a Christmas nativity scene in a city corridor “in the name of the principle of secularism”. The mayor was due to this fact obliged to take away it inside forty-eight hours. The deadline having expired on Monday December 23, Nelson Chaudon is liable to pay a penalty of 1,000 euros for any further day of presentation.

The councilor had, furthermore, tried to disrupt the court docket’s determination, in response to a press launch from the LDH. “The pressure put on the magistrate and the staff of this jurisdiction, by the chartering, by the mayor of Beaucaire, at taxpayers’ expense, of two buses of his sympathizers to attend the hearing and disrupt the debates, will not have did not bend the summary judge,” explains the group.

The mayor of Beaucaire appeals to the Court of Cassation

In a video revealed on town’s official networks, Nelson Chaudon says he needs to proceed “the fight to defend our traditions and our identity.” He additionally indicated that he would attraction to the Court of Cassation and referred to as on the inhabitants of his commune to make donations to finance subsequent 12 months’s crèche.

The mayor additionally appealed to the Beaucairois by organizing a referendum to reply this query: “Are you in favor of the exhibition of a Provençal nativity scene in the town hall as has been done for ten years? » If 98.56% of residents had voted “yes”, just one,680 out of the practically 16,000 within the metropolis had come to vote, an abstention charge of round 90%…



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