Justice, which requested the sum of 2500 euros to Mickaël Lechantre, invoking reasons of hygiene, safety and civility. The man intends to appeal and could appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to assert individual freedom.
Since seven, Mickaël Lechantre walking barefoot. This Strasbourg 33 years adept “barefooting” translate “walking barefoot” had seized the court asminitratif Besançon after being denied on several occasions access to the citadel of the city, demanding the repeal of Regulation inside the monument a World Heritage Site by Unesco. Thursday, the court dismissed the appeal, finding that this “restriction on individual freedom of choice by each of his clothing” was legally justified.
Justice, asking the sum of 2500 euros to Mickaël Lechantre, invoking reasons of hygiene, safety and civility. It stresses “the need to prevent accidents and injuries that may occur due to permanent work for several years in all areas of the Citadel” and the obligation to “minimize the risk of disease transmission from animals ( Zoological Garden of the Citadel) may come into direct or indirect contact with the public. “
Mickaël Lechantre argues meanwhile that bare feet are safer,” more airy, so clean, as soles shoes never washed. ” At the hearing held on March 24, he said: “I harmed anyone by being barefoot. I’m just asking to be allowed to live my life. In many cultures, remove shoes is rather a mark of respect. “
The man ready to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
the administration of the Citadel has in turn raised the respect for memory of places that are in its enclosure and more particularly the Museum of the Resistance and Deportation about the Second World War. And to support his claim, his lawyer went even draw a parallel with Nazi extermination camps where Jews were forced to walk barefoot, reports France Bleu Besançon. “In many cultures, remove shoes is rather a mark of respect, says Mickaël Lechantre. Discrimination is rooted in French culture, it is quite usual to reject a lifestyle that is unusual in France. “
The Strasbourg told the Est Républicain that his “conversion” to barefooting comes from the refusal to be burdened with material goods as unnecessary, to the point of making a principle of life. “I resistant feet, so I do not need shoes, he had affiré the Administrative Court on 24 March. When we hiked in the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, we do not fear the parties paved the Citadel. “
Mickaël Lechantre intends to appeal and says even willing to go up to the European Court of Human rights. He wants to “get a law” for everybody to like him walk freely barefoot.
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