The Administrative Court of Montpellier urged the mayor of the town of Villeneuve-les-Maguelone remove the bilingual signs "Vilanova de Magalona" at the entrance of the city.
For the uninitiated, here summarized the arguments of the TA:
- The Constitutional Council has conditioned the use of a language other than French in the public space to "special circumstances". The town is unable to prove that the form be returned Occitan has any historical legitimacy (presumably a form "félibréenne" would have been a phonetic), so there is no "special circumstances" when when the signs are illegal.
- In addition, the spelling used does not comply with code combining imposed by the Code of the Road, here it is "O" which is not a recognized character.
is implacable Judge gives 2 months for the panels are removed.
If this part on appeal and then to the State Council and under the assumption that this ruling is upheld at every stage, we will rock cottages in Occitan. Ultimately, no less than the legitimacy of the Occitan spelling that is pronounced the judge.
Obviously, Occitanists have wrongly ridiculed the decision as being very scrupulous in road safety: the Occitan therefore do not know to read a court decision, namely that the cancellation was not based solely on the code road (even if this means alone was enough) but also on the interpretation by the judge of the Constitutional Council's jurisprudence relating to "special circumstances" justifying the use of a language other than French on public space. In this case, the means used by the judge is the lack of historical legitimacy, which therefore can not support a particular circumstance. It is little doubt that the town was badly put together his defense because it must be possible to find a certificate that looks somewhat older than version Occitan returned.
remains a strong argument on appeal: what to do with languages that have diacritical marks which are not known to the French? Certainly, the only "special circumstances" is sufficient here, but what if this condition met, the spelling used is inconsistent with the French spelling? In short, do we condemn does not bilingual sign any initiative when the spelling used is not consistent with the French? Basically, the judge will decide if an appeal of the merits of the graphic languages of France, at least in public.
In all cases, Occitanists are punished for not bringing the debate into the realm of the ideological confrontation with those obsessed Republican unity. There is no popular support and the right will never be the side of Occitan. To say that these were naive for new constitutional arrangements! Obviously, the approach of the association is to condemn, but these are the consequences of years of autism, the inability to target the enemy. Well done, that's all we can say.
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