Decision by far-right local authority in southern France, affecting about 150 mainly Muslim pupils, has been called ‘an attack on the rights of children’A far-right local authority in southern France on Monday scrapped pork-free school meals, a move branded “anti-Muslim” or “anti-Jewish” by an equality minister. Julien Sanchez, the National Front mayor of Beaucaire, a town south of Avignon, abolished the scheme, brought in by his predecessor, on the first day of the new school term. Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France Read moreThe step affects about 150 – mainly Muslim – pupils who take the “substitution meals” out of 600 local students in total. In a newspaper article announcing the policy change in December, Sanchez said the pork-free meals were “anti-Republican”. Parents of students opposed to the decision in Beaucaire will gather in front of the town hall for a picnic protest on Monday 15 January.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2018 21:28 UTC