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With the moment the coronavirus wave collapses over France, nightlife in the capital is about to decline: from Monday night, Parisian bars will be forced to close at 10 p. m. Some promised to fight the measure while others resigned, saying that the government’s proposed compensations were invalid. enough to make sure business lasts long enough to reopen permanently once the coast is clear.
The resolution to close the evening festivities in Paris and 10 other French cities comes a day after the bars and restaurants of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence were forced to close completely for at least two weeks. “Covid-19. But Paris, lately regarded as an “enhanced warning zone,” has noticed that its Covid-19 numbers continue to rise since the measure was announced.
On average, during the following week, Paris has experienced an occurrence rate of 243. 8 that showed cases of coronavirus consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, almost five times the alert threshold set to leave the country of isolation in May, according to the public health authority. France: this figure is more than double for Parisians over the age of 20 to 29, to 494. 5, consisting of 100,000. (One of the points that characterized Marseille as the highest alert zone is its occurrence rate above 250 consistent with 100,000).
When Health Minister Olivier Véran announced the new restrictions last week, the industry did not go around. The giant UMIH trade union called for the “immediate withdrawal of these decisions,” adding, “Professional orders will protect the interests of the sector before the courts if necessary. “If the new measures to help the corporations involved are not up to the task,” we will stop all efforts with the government until further notice,” the organization threatened.
Didier Chenet, who heads the GNI hotel union, closes “unjustified, discriminatory and counterproductive. “
Other industry representatives under pressure that the measures are unfair, given the hotel industry’s efforts to ensure customer protection. The CPME Ile-de-France trade union, which represents small and medium-sized enterprises in the metropolitan area of Paris, and the Regional Union of Food Industries, noted on Sunday that professionals in the sector “are the first to adopt, respect and enforce the measures to prevent coronavirus. [For example, mask and social estating] and physical care precautions, regardless of the position of your business. . “
In Paris, the police prefecture said at 10 p. m. Closures would not apply to institutions that, by law, can only serve alcohol with food, he also said it would prohibit the sale of alcohol, the intake of alcohol in public goods, and the transmission of music outdoors between 10 p. m. and 6 am to prevent parties from leaving bars and on the streets after the last hour, with public meetings of more than 10 more people also banned. The measures that enter into force in Paris on Monday will last until 11 October, for now. many in the hotel industry say early bar closures are just the beginning, especially as Covid-19 is making progress in the capital.
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‘We’re irresponsible people’
On Sunday, the “Remains Open” collective amassed several dozen masked bars, restaurants and nightclubs on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris to express its frustration with its destination.
Stéphane Manigold is a spokesperson for “Remains Open and also runs 4 gourmet restaurants in Paris, adding Maison Rostang. The so-called Let’s Stay Open “is not a call to the insurrection,” Manigold told FRANCE 24 on Monday. If the prefect makes Ciérranos’ decision, we will obviously close,” he explained. Stay open, that’s what we have to do. But not for a month or a week. If we have to close for a month, two months, three months, we will. We’ve already done that. We are not irresponsible people. “
For Let’s Open, the challenge is the longest game for corporations in monetary difficulties after an initial three-month freeze starting in March and a dark summer season: it’s about offering establishments the assistance they want to the existing crisis and being able to reopen when they can.
“We are in a scenario that is no longer economically bearable because the government has not taken strong action on us,” says the entrepreneur. During the spring close, the government allowed the hotel sector to delay the payment of safe expenses, but still had to absorb constant costs. They have filed secured loans, but loans will be on the books for years to come. “A moment-out with a flow of money at its lowest level, a turnover of minus 40 to minus 60 percent, is not acceptable,” Manigold said.
“This means that we are already on our knees and that we will be in any Array . . . if the government does not take strong action to at least our constant costs,” he said.
Manigold’s restaurants in Paris’ 8th, 16th and 17th districts are not directly affected by Monday’s new restrictions, however, it suggests that they can still have a domino effect on full-service restaurants. “There are consumers who have written to us and said, ‘Listen, we’ve booked for 9:00 p. m. M. But we have to postpone it at 7:30 p. m. Because you have to close at 10 p. m. , and we may not have time to enjoy our food,’ he said.
In any case, Manigold is convinced that some other complete blockage is only a matter of time. “Let us be clear, in Paris, the resolution was already taken in Ile-de-France (Paris region) to close all establishments. it’s only a matter of days or weeks, ” he said, and called “a utopia” to believe otherwise.
But the restorer questions the wisdom of targeting an industry that has invested so much in preventive measures to stop the spread of the virus. Manigold said everyone can simply perceive a general blockade, but wonders how a crowded Paris metro is safer than the institutions it represents.
“The French are told that the virus circulates in restaurants and bars,” he jokes, noting that they have been filled with hand gel and mask that French social security reimbursed them until the end of July.
The entrepreneur suggests that the government would do more to isolate populations vulnerable to the virus or punish bars that do not comply, not the entire sector at once.
“People will keep meeting in personal places anyway. But there will be no rules, there will be no other people like us who remind them to distance themselves socially, to wear a mask systematically when they walk. When they’re with their family, you don’t wear a mask to go to the bathroom,” Manipassld said. We will give each other an intelligent conscience, but we will be ineffective. “
Worrying on the dance floor
Meanwhile, other segments of nightlife still have the chance to reopen since the March finale.
Nightclubs were closed because of the coronavirus crisis in France, but the head of the country’s largest nightclub syndicate said he had spent the summer alerting the government to bars, restaurants and other establishments, specifically in Paris, which violated antivirus protocols to fill the gap in nightclubs. nightlife market.
“Being a nightclub in France for the last 4 months was simple, there was only one condition to meet: not being a nightclub,” Patrick Malvas, president of the National Union of Records and Recreation Places (SNDLL), told FRANCE. This attitude of laissez-faire, he believes, contributed to the wave of the moment, endangering public aptitude and penalizing genuine nightclubs further delaying their reopening.
The head of the union said there was no illusions this summer about the reopening of nightclubs in the short term. “Social estinement, masks, etc. , are incompatible with our profession. A disco can’t be a mask dance, it’s not. “imaginable, and neither is esttachment because it is dancing, they are encounters. The coronavirus is at the very center of our business,” he said, adding that it would be difficult to control such regulations on the dance floor anyway.
“The government let [summer misconduct] happen, they didn’t do their duty, and now they must be natural as hard snow, so they hit everyone blindly,” Malvas said.
“It’s not the bars that have misunderstood [which now have to close], they’re not the ones who’ve been combing it all summer, filling the void left by nightclubs. [The authorities] let them occupy the disco box and are now charging the value to the entire profession. That’s what surprises me,” he says.
At this stage, Malvaus said, “reopening is not the solution” with respect to nightclubs. “There is a real public aptitude problem. This is denied. We recognize it. ” In fact, the industry’s union leader doesn’t see nightclubs reopen until next April, after a one-year hiatus, and only hopes that the state aid they’ve won so far will last until then.
“If [the government] had been consistent in their politics – closed nightclubs, gave them help, but blocked mistakes – if it had been consistent and consistent, the message would have been better,” he said.