(Connexion) A public pool in Paris closed this weekend after pro-burkini activists mounted a protest against the ban on the body-covering swimsuit, and demanding “access for all to leisure facilities.”
Protesters gathered at the pool in the 11th arrondissement on Sunday, September 1, holding a banner that read: “Pool for everyone, stop Islamophobia,” and chanting “We will swim, even if racists don’t want us to, we will swim.”
A “burkini” is a set of clothes, made out of swimming costume material, which covers the entirety of the body, except for the face, hands, and feet. It is worn by Muslim women who wish to swim and enter the water without showing their body or hair.
