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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – The French city of Grenoble took its decision to allow body-covering “burkini” bathing suits for women in public pools to the country’s top court on Tuesday after the interior minister said the move was “seriously undermining secularism”. The city’s legal fight with the state over its attempt to reverse a decade-old council ban on the full-body swimwear has renewed the nationwide debate on the place of religion in public places. Body-covering swimwear – which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed – is largely worn by Muslim women who wish to preser…