Métropole De Lyon. A "Common Sense" Measure: the Region Refuses to Give the Name of Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif to a High School Room
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In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the regional majority adopted new rules governing the designation of high schools and public facilities. A decision that led to the rejection of the name of boxer Imane Khelif, chosen by students from Meyzieu, and revived political tensions between right and opposition.
The project of the high school of Meyzieu had been controversial last April. On Thursday the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region must adopt a new regulation prohibiting this type of tribute.
In the context of a project on the equality of girls and boys, students of a high school in Meyzieu, near Lyon (Rhône), wanted to name the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif for a room in their school. The region refused this Thursday, after a vote. Students wanted to name the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, the target of recurrent attacks on her femininity, to a room in their high school in Meyzieu (Rhône), as part of a project on the equality of girls a…
It was a polemic triggered by the extreme right that had touched the Arnaud-Beltrame high school in Meyzieu last May. While a multi-purpose hall was to be inaugurated in the name of Imane Khelif, Algerian boxer Olympic champion (the name had been chosen by the students themselves), the UDR/RN group to the Region had strongly opposed this name, denouncing [...] L'article "A report of common sense": after the polemic of the Imane Khelif hall, the …
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