Crèche The municipality, which highlights the cultural, artistic or festive nature of the crèche, has exhausted all recourses
Julien Sanchez, the RN mayor of Beaucaire — OVERVIEW/SIPA
The appeal of the town hall of Beaucaire (Gard) was rejected Wednesday by the Council of State, the highest French administrative court. The municipality RN was contesting a court order ordering it to remove the Christmas crib installed in the town hall.
In December 2020, the administrative court of Nîmes, seized by the prefect of Gard, had ordered in reference “the suspension of the execution of the unformalized decision of the mayor of the commune of Beaucaire to install a nativity scene; within the grounds of the Town Hall”. The municipality had appealed against this judgment, highlighting “the cultural, artistic or festive nature” of the nursery.
Already at the nursery. standing by the Administrative Court of Appeal
In January 2021, the interim relief judge of the Marseille administrative court of appeal had rejected the request and enjoins the municipality to “ the removal of the crib” under penalty of penalty. A decision confirmed on the merits in September 2021.
Mayor Julien Sanchez had announced a complaint to the Council of State for “discrimination”. In its judgment on Wednesday, the Council of State considers that none of the arguments of the city “”n’ allow the appeal to be admitted” and therefore decides that he “is not admitted”. ziers, the Hérault city run by Robert Ménard, close to the RN, and Beaucaire are regularly prosecuted but continue to be installed each year by the mayors concerned.