(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 20 - A group of about 50 women and a few
men bathed in their clothes on Sunday at Trieste's famous
gender-divided beach on Sunday to show solidarity with a group
of Muslim women who were prevented from taking a dip in their
clothes or burkinis a week ago.
After taking to the water mainly in undergarments, but also
burkinis, one of the women said "we too are wearing burkinis to
say it was wrong to stop the other women from bathing".
The protest dip took place at the northeastern port city's
historic Lanterna Beach, known to locals as Pedocin, which has
been split along gender lines since the first bathers took to
the water in the early 20th century. (ANSA).
Trieste women bathe clothed in solidarity with Muslim women
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