In Toulouse, only three covered markets remain open

• After the Prime Minister's decision to close the food markets, an exemption is granted to Toulouse for three covered markets.
• Residents can continue to stock up on supplies at Victor-Hugo, Les Carmes and Saint-Cyprien.
• The mayor had pleaded for the maintenance of all the markets, the prefect cut the pear in half.

The stalls of the famous Victor Hugo market in Toulouse will be open this Wednesday morning. But not those of the popular Cristal market on the boulevards. The prefect, Etienne Guyot, decided. It authorized the continuation of the activity of the three main covered markets - Victor-Hugo therefore, the Carmelites and Saint-Cyprien - but it prohibited those of full wind. In this, he gave only partial satisfaction to Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of the Pink City, who argued for maintaining all of the markets.

This prefectural decision follows the decision of Edouard Philippe, announced Monday, to close all food markets in France as part of the tightening of containment measures against the coronavirus. The Prime Minister had specified that exemptions could be granted "for the food markets which meet a need for provision of the population" and provided that health guarantees are given.

[# Covid19] Because your safety is assured, the distance rules applied, and because we have to fight against the risk of food shortages, I just asked @PrefetOccitanie for permission to keep our covered and full markets open vent #Toulouse pic.twitter.com/gv8b44W4KI

However, on this last point, Jean-Luc Moudenc considered that all precautions were taken in Toulouse. "We have closed the non-food markets and for the others we have redefined the locations to impose distances between the stalls," he explained this Tuesday at 20 Minutes . We also imposed rules of distancing for the customers ”. Every day, the municipal police patrol and compliance with these rules is checked.

Fear of influx to closed stores

In a letter sent this Tuesday to the prefect, the mayor said his fear "that health risk is added a risk of food shortage at the expense of Toulouse (...)", but also that "the older" are penalized or that customers flocked "to private and closed stores, without public control"

This Tuesday evening, the prefect heard it but only partially. He cut the pear in half.

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• Coronavirus
• Covid 19
• Society
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• Toulouse
• Food