By Leigh Mcmanus For Mailonline
Published: 15:57 BST, 24 June 2019 | Updated: 15:57 BST, 24 June 2019
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Muslim women have defied a ban on wearing 'burkinis' in a local swimming pool in France.
The Jean Bron swimming pool in Grenoble is among many in the country that ban burkinis - a full body bikini - but 'Operation burkini' saw a group of activists break the rule and bathe for an hour.
It was part of action by the group Citizen Alliance of Grenoble who say it a Muslim women's right to bathe in the controversial garment.
The Jean Bron swimming pool in Grenoble is among many in the country that ban burkinis but this group of Muslim and non Muslim men and women bathed anyway as a protest
Two of the women involved said: 'We have a dream: to have fun in public swimming pools like all other citizens'. Those who entered in burkinis were fined£30 by police
The action saw many people
