In Biarritz, rue de la Négresse renamed rue de l’Agregress after a court docket determination | EUROtoday

Following a court docket determination, the Biarritz municipal council (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) voted, Monday, May 5 within the night, in favor of the title change within the rue de la Négresse on rue de l’Agregress, however with out rejecting an eponymous district. The elected officers repealed two deliberations, one dated 1986 which had baptized the rue de la Négresse, and the opposite from 1861, speculated to have launched this title for a district.

On February 6, the Bordeaux administrative court docket of attraction had granted a request from the Bordeaux affiliation Memoirs and Sharing, giving three months to the municipality Biarrote to repeal these two deliberations. The title Negresse, “Racist and sexist” According to the candidates, is “Likely to harm the dignity of the human person”had concluded the judges.

“Despite a disagreement in substance and form, we must perform this decision”stated Maider Arosteguy, the mayor (Les Républicains) in Biarritz, initially of the municipal council. Before the vote, a number of elected opposition elected officers castigated a “Capitulation” going through “Unpublished interference” of “Judges foreign to our local reality”who ask “Erase history without explaining it”.

Memoirs and sharing, which promoted the work of reminiscence on colonization and slavery, had requested in 2019 from the city corridor of Biarritz to repeal the deliberations of 1986 and 1861. The mayor having refused, the Bordeaux affiliation had seized the executive court docket of Pau who rejected his attraction by a judgment of December 21, 2023. The affiliation had then seized the executive court docket of attraction which gave him motive public, who had estimated that “Semantic evolution” of the phrase now offers him a “Insulting connotation”.

The case now earlier than the Council of State

On Monday, the municipal council, after having repealed the 2 referred to, nonetheless, confined itself to renamed the road solely, invoking the overall code of native authorities which obliges a municipality to call its streets, however not a district. The mayor additionally asserts a “Username, which has no administrative qualification”.

Consequently, the panel of rue de la Dégress will probably be nicely eliminated and adjusted by June 16, however “No decision obliges to remove the words” the negress “on the rest of the public space”insisted Maider Arosteguy after the council.

The councilor “Hope” that “The Council of State will restore the decision of the first body” Made to Pau, specifically the rejection of the request made by the Memoires et Shares affiliation.

The Memoires et Shares affiliation, earlier than the council, claimed a “Total victory” Faced with a time period that “Trunning a racist archetype”whereas regretting a “Yet nose” With the selection of the title L’Eurgress, retained after a citizen session.