The mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, here during the summer days of the EELV party, August 22 in Pantin.

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Co-signer of a letter from around fifty elected officials asking Jean Castex for solutions in favor of small businesses, the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle impatiently awaited the Prime Minister's statements on Sunday evening.

The latter therefore welcomed the closure of non-essential departments in supermarkets, from Tuesday.

"It's a good first step," the green mayor said on Monday on BFM TV.

We all have platforms like Amazon in mind now.

The government has still authorized around 20 Amazon projects.

We are destroying jobs.

In this period turned towards Christmas, it will be a huge distortion of competition with a model that we do not want.

We must mobilize so as not to switch to online sales.

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"We cannot let ourselves be devastated like that"

A prospect that Eric Piolle particularly fears, determined to defend traders in Grenoble and elsewhere: “This distortion hurts the hearts of everyone, all these traders in large, medium and small towns.

We want to keep our local business alive.

It will be necessary to respect strict sanitary instructions, perhaps by making an appointment or collecting at the store, but we cannot let ourselves be devastated like that ”.

If he felt that this reconfinement was "not hard enough", Saturday in

Le Dauphiné Libéré

, the mayor of Grenoble is keen to find solutions for various sectors of activity in pain: "France is today overwhelmed again by the virus.

But we have to find a way to continue living.

In addition to commerce, we need culture and sport for our mental health ”.

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