The French deputy Matthieu Bloch visited the mayor of Porrentruy this Thursday, July 10, 2025, against the backdrop of controversy concerning the Jura swimming pool.image: montage watson
Against the backdrop of “swimming pool decree”, the French deputy Matthieu Bloch was visiting this Thursday, at the mayor of Porrentruy. Close to RN, he dropped the words. After that, Watson went to bathers what they think of the restriction measure taken by the municipal authorities.
10.07.2025, 18:5210.07.2025, 19:02
The authorities of Porrentruy found solid support in Matthieu Bloch, the vice-president of the Franco-Swiss friendship group in the National Assembly and deputy of Montbéliard, in the department neighboring the Doubs. This elected UDR (Union of Laws for the Republic), the formation of Eric Ciotti Allied at the National Rally, was the host this Thursday morning of the mayor of the Jura commune at the origin of the famous municipal decree. Official visit gaits.
Arrived on the blows of 9 hours with his parliamentary assistant at the wheel of a Peugeot 3008, model assembled in the factories of Sochaux-Montbéliard, the 42-year-old French parliamentarian, blue costume, white shirt and red tie, was maintained about an hour with the first local magistrate, Philippe Eggerswyler, the “father” of the decree that limits Swiss residents, as well as foreigners Swiss work, in addition to tourists, attendance at the Bruntrutain Basin.
“A storm in a glass of water”
A trio of journalists whose MP was waiting for the deputy outside the town hall after his interview. We sometimes complain about the language of wood of politicians. There it was quite the opposite. The words were nonetheless oriented, the elected official taking advantage of the Swiss case to fuel his vision of France
“I tell you very clearly, the decision of the town hall of Porrentruy is completely legitimate. I would have grown if there was a stigma of the French, if the decree consisted in a refusal to see French in the swimming pool. I would have told you that I do not agree and that we must not put all the French in the same basket. There, we are making a storm in a glass of water on something that does not exist, in fact. ”
Matthieu Bloch
“A laxity in France that we do not find in you”
Matthieu Bloch in front of the town hall of Porrentruy. July 10, 2025.image: watson
Matthieu Bloch seems to be admiring from Swiss civility and conversely sorry for the security problems that arise in France and which it partly links to immigration.
“It will not have escaped you that we have problems of assimilation and integration in certain districts. Besides, our French gendarmes and police always tell me “if only we had the same means and the same culture as Switzerland, we might have fewer problems”. There is in France a certain laxity that we do not find in your home. You are rather an example for us. ”
Matthieu Bloch
“These thugs, they are looking for swimming”
The UDR deputy speaks of a jet, as one empties his bag before witnesses. It is up to the question of violence in swimming pools, a symptom, we understand:
“You have in a French district 90% of people who want to live in peace and who are taken hostage by a few thugs. Indeed, these thugs, they seek swimming, and when, with us, it is closed, they come to your home. The problem, with us, is how do we do so that the thugs are fewer. In France, you have a lot of lawless areas, a lot of neighborhoods where there are security problems because there is not the criminal response that should be. ”
Matthieu Bloch
Support in 2027 at the National Rally
The message has certainly passed. Matthieu Bloch does not make a mystery of the support he will bring to the national rally to the next presidential election, he who comes from the Les Républicains party and before that, at his beginnings in politics, from the UMP Trend to “Right All”, an ephemeral era embodied by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.
But if the deputy for Doubs, child of Audincourt, on the outskirts of Montbéliard, came to see the mayor Philippe Eggertswyler, it was first to offer him to resuscitate a real Franco-Suisse cross-border cooperation program, a theme that is obviously to his heart.
Increase carpooling and rail links
The question of transport seems central to him. He wants a lot to the vice-president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, Michel Neugnot, to have snubbed the rail line connecting Bienne to the TGV station of Belfort-Montbéliard-“a bullshit”, he says. His vision? Strengthen the carpooling of French cross -border workers to unclog Swiss tunnels during point hours, increase train services. His message? You, the Swiss, are models of pragmatism and efficiency, we, French, are the workforce without which your factories would not turn. Let us unite our strengths!
It is precisely that the advisor to the Jura States Charles Juillard passes in front of the town hall. The presentations are made, the two men had never met. The Jura senator says how much he has invested in the defense of the Bienne-Belfort rail line. He fully approves the idea of a cross -border partnership worthy of the name.
Matthieu Bloch and Charles Juillard. Porrentruy, July 10, 2025.image: watson
Crisis
It may be 10:30 am, we haven’t seen the minutes pass. Matthieu Bloch and his parliamentary assistant go up in the Peugeot 3008, heading for neighboring France and its problems. Meanwhile, the mayor Philippe Eggertswyler came out of the town hall dressed in jeans and a gray t-shirt, in a summer atmosphere, conducive to swimming.
In this regard, a quadripartite crisis summit was to take place this Thursday at 4 p.m. between mayor Philippe Eggertswyler, Lionel Maitre, of the inter -municipal union of the district of Porrentruy, both favorable to the “swimming pool” decree, the chief of the cantonal gendarmerie and the cantonal minister Rosalie Beuret. The latter, socialist, would be favorable to the duration of the municipal decree, which entered into force on July 4 and current until August 31, is shortened. The town hall, except court decision, remains for the time being on its positions.
What they say to the pool
A quarter of an hour’s walk from downtown Porrentruy, here is the famous swimming pool, which has become the European revealer of more or less buried things. Noon is approaching, attendance is shy in this resumption of good weather after three days of cold shower. So, happy with the decree? The opinions of people in swimsuit are shared:
A man, fifties:
“It’s a bit like this, this decree. It is discriminatory, when we see in addition that it is taken up by the extreme right German ”
A mother, three children and the grandmother:
“We approve, it’s better. One of my daughters who came with school, to whom I had given permission to stay an hour more at the pool with his friends, heard words that we should not hear at his age. A young person had a knife ”
Porrentruy swimming pool, July 10, 2025.image: watson
The girl in question, a dozen years, elongated, cuts her mother:
“A Swiss knife, the young person was outside the pool enclosure”
A father with his three daughters and his sister, who comes from Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France:
“Here, it’s quiet, and then, we can smoke. I come from Audincourt, in neighboring France, the nearest swimming pool on the French side is in Montbéliard, I never went there ”
He continues: “I have a Swiss work permit, that’s why I come to the Porrentruy swimming pool, I will not go elsewhere. Right now, I’m unemployed. I worked in a watchmaking company located just there, next to it (it makes a gesture of the arm). In Switzerland, in any case here, we are not robbed, we are safe. ” His sister intervenes:
“In Pas-de-Calais, I never go to the pool”
A young sportsman and her friend social worker. They live next to the Porrentruy swimming pool:
“It sometimes sought the muddy, rather Maghreb profiles. They took lounge chairs and put themselves aside to smoke the chicha. We felt it could leave for a look ”
Porrentruy swimming pool, July 10, 2025.image: watson
A man and a woman of Swiss nationality. Him:
“We can understand the decision of this decree, but it would have been necessary for 18-25 year olds, for example, and not all ages”
Elle:
“I can’t find it normal to deprive French retirees, mothers living the other side of the border, from a moment of relaxation to the Porrentruy swimming pool, all because they have no work permit”
She and him:
“A few days ago, a young man was taken handcuffed by the police, he was a good Swiss, a real one!”
According to Lionel Maître, one of the craftsmen of the decree, the Porrentruy swimming pool would have recorded 30 more subscriptions on the first day following the entry into force of the measure, 20, the second day. This Thursday, July 10, “it’s almost a little empty,” notes a bather.
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