On Thursday, Prime Lieutenant Mayor Benot Payan requested a 10-day deadline for the new restrictions, announced Wednesday night through health minister Olivier Véran.
“Last night’s statements are irrational. Array. Marseille has more merit than to be used as an example,” Payan said at a press conference, in which he sought to express the “incomprehension” and “anger” of local officials now engaged in a fight for force with Paris.
“We will not settle for being punished, punished and appointed. “
However, the Prime Minister’s Office temporarily rejected Marseille’s appeal and told BFM TV, “We can’t wait another 10 days. “
The new regulations will see bars and restaurants in “high alert” spaces, the threshold before the state of emergency for fitness, absolutely closed for two weeks starting Saturday. They will also apply to any public reception facility that has strict physical conditioning protocols.
The mayor of Marseille, Micele Rubirola, denounced the measures in the early hours of Thursday and said that the city corridor was never consulted, “contrary to what Olivier Véran had stated on social media. “
She told BFM TV: “My first deputy tried to call her all afternoon but got no answer. just won a call from the Minister of Health ten minutes before the press conference (Wednesday).
Rubirola said that even if it “called for civil disobedience at all,” the state needed to review its roadmap to handle the virus. “Nothing on the fitness stage justifies this announcement,” he added on Twitter.
In response to the local anger, Véran said he would ensure that the resolution applies stricter rules, adding that “consultation does not mean reaching an agreement. “
“Critical Thresholds”
Véran said Wednesday that the new measures were the most productive way to stop a wave of coronavirus infections at the end of summer and warned, “If we don’t act quickly, we run the risk of reaching critical thresholds in some areas. “
The “maximum alert” protocol has been implemented in spaces where the coronavirus rate exceeds 250 infections per week, which coincides with one hundred thousand inhabitants, where the rate of occurrence among other people over 65 years of age or older is more than one hundred infections, which corresponds to one hundred thousand. , and where the proportion of patients with Covid-19 in intensive care sets is greater than 30 consistent with one hundred.
However, the mayor of Aix-en-Provence, Maryse Joissains, called the protocol a disaster. “I jump on the spot, I’m in a monstrous fury,” he told local La Provence news. “I’ve never noticed anything. I like it. It’s going too far. Its role is to protect, save or even punish him, but not to create a worrying climate like this. “
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Joissains said the resolution would ruin businesses and scare other people from sending their children to school. “People want to calm down, they do the opposite. Array. Se’s getting out of control, so I say, “Shut up, Veran. “
In addition to the chorus of dissent, Bernard Marty, president of UMIH, the region’s leading coffee, hotel and restaurant employers’ union, said he was “very, very angry” at being notified of the resolution at the last minute.
“We almost have the feeling that Paris considers that in Marseille we are small and that there is no desire to tell ourselves about what is in our city,” Marty said.
Five new alert levels
In the redesigned virus flow map in France, which now divides the country into five alert zones, 11 cities adding to Paris have been placed on “maximum alert”. “In these areas, meetings of more than 10 more people will be prohibited from Saturday and bars closed at 22am from Monday.
Like the local elected representatives of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, the mayor of Paris Hidalgo opposes the new regulations, which she describes as “very restrictive measures that have unfortunately been taken for consultation”.
“The vast majority of our cafes and restaurants have done wonderful things in the public area and I really need to give them my full support,” he said in a video clip broadcast via BFM TV.