In Beaucaire, a city in Gard led by the National Rally for ten years, the far-right municipality units up a Provençal crèche yearly in December. In the courtyard of the city corridor there are a number of dozen conventional collectible figurines representing Arlésiennes, gardians (Camargue bull breeders), shepherds and different professions of yesteryear in addition to symbols of the Camargue peasantry. The Christian nativity figures solely appeared on Wednesday, December 25.
Every 12 months, believing that this initiative doesn’t respect the precept of secularism, the Human Rights League (LDH) takes motion to have it declared unlawful. “We have ten years of jurisprudence. It has been ruled on numerous occasions that this crèche is illegal”affirms Sophie Mazas, the lawyer for the LDH, who, in 2024, attacked the town in abstract proceedings, on the administrative courtroom. Also within the sights of the LDH, the cities of Béziers (Hérault) and Perpignan, additionally within the fingers of the far proper, which have put in crèches of their city halls or close by.
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