Paris, France:
Disneyland Paris, Europe’s largest tourist attraction, on Tuesday apologised to a mother just after two members of its safety employees ordered her to quit breastfeeding her infant in public.
Another female visitor drew consideration to the incident on Sunday, tweeting indignantly that two safety agents had “prevented a mother from breastfeeding her two-year-old baby on the grounds that it shocked foreign clients. In France, in July 2021!”
The tweet was accompanied by a image of the two agents standing more than two females sitting on a bench, one of them holding a modest infant. In yet another tweet, the witness stated the mother was Australian.
Responding to the messages, on which the French government was copied, Disneyland stated Tuesday it “profoundly regrets this situation and present once more our apologies to the mother in question”.
The agents’ actions had been “not compatible with our regulations and our values”, it stated, insisting “there is no restriction on breastfeeding at Disneyland Paris”.
It also added that it provided “different places” at the website “for those who prefer a dedicated place” to nurse their children.
In its initial Twitter response to the incident on Monday, Disneyland had struck an unapologetic tone, saying only that mothers had the use of particular rooms “with suitable and comfortable material such as special breastfeeding seats”.
It changed its tune just after getting castigated on Twitter by France’s minister for citizenship, Marlene Schiappa, who was previously minister for gender equality.
“Dear @DisneylandParis, breastfeeding a baby is not an offence. It’s good that you have dedicated rooms but no-one knows when and where a baby will be hungry,” she wrote.
“Don’t you also start stigmatizing mothers, it’s hard enough like that elsewhere,” she added.
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