Tuesday 16 September 2014

What a sad occurrence at the swimming pool in Toulouse.

In a way the 5 year old child died because his mother was wearing a hijab. The child was playing with his cousin in the swimming pool at Toulouse. His mother had been banned as she wanted to swim wearing her hijab, a  black dress where her head but not her face was covered. She was stopped for reasons of hygiene ( obviously) The poor child got into difficulties and died. The security lifeguards were cleared of any negligence.
What a terrible story and how sad that the lady was not able because of her religion to don a swimming costume.
I feel two things, it would have been safer not to let the child swim. If he was swimming, the life guards should have been aware that the mother was not in the water with him and special attention should have been given. I hope that pools through out France take this accident in to their training for lifeguards and steps are taken for such an accident never to happen again, and write it into  health and safety rules.
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