They feel "plagued", the actors of the night world rebel

• The night world is mobilized after the announcement of a reopening of establishments only in September.
• In the Tarn, on the initiative of a DJ, discos but also libertine clubs and other actors of the night demonstrate this Wednesday at 2 p.m. to denounce restrictions.

"Do they want the night world to die?" The rents continue to fall, the charges also and establishments will fold shop, "deplores Christophe Doumerc. For 24 years, he has run the Hot Club, a libertine discotheque located in the Toulouse region and since mid-March, the coronavirus crisis has put a stop to its activity.

Like many players in the sector, he will be present this Wednesday at the demonstration organized in Albi, an event baptized for the occasion "the claws of the night".

Tomorrow appointment place du vigan a albi for the 1st official manifestation of the night and event world.
Thank you for your support. # Mondedelanuit #griffesdelanuit #discotheques #manifestation pic.twitter.com/Sikg3jvxoG

While cafes and restaurants have reopened three weeks ago, and cinemas have just turned on their dark rooms, discos will have to wait until September. What cause a wave of anger among these professionals who employ nearly 43,000 employees.

“We are the last on the deconfinement ladder. We can understand the question of barrier gestures, but when we see what happened at the Fête de la Musique, it is an aberration, there are double standards, ”continues Christophe Doumerc.

For this night specialist, the closure of their establishments is the source of another phenomenon: the presence of very alcoholic young people on the public highway, whereas they usually find themselves in a nightclub, "in supervised and framed places ”.

A sentiment shared by Jymmy Santovito. This DJ is at the origin of the demonstration which will be held this Wednesday in Albi, while in Paris the same day actors of the night and deputies meet in the oldest nightclub in Paris to talk about survival of the sector.

With forty of my colleagues we sign a press release denouncing the administrative absurdity in the decision to keep the nightclubs closed. We ask the government for more consideration for the world sector at night. pic.twitter.com/oQ3WzCG3w0

In Haute-Vienne, a petition on change.org calling for public support has been launched.

Changing the image of the profession

“Some say, the nightclubs are closed, it's less alcohol and less deaths. It is false, in discotheque they are slowed down by the price of the bottles, there they smash their mouths with bottles on the banks of the Garonne. And I'm telling you this summer at Cap d'Agde, when we have to manage all these people who at 2 am will have no more clubs to go to, ”laments Jim X, of his stage name.

The latter does not understand how the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, could ask the night establishments to convert to bars. “What's the difference between the two. I had to organize a village party on Saturday with 200 people, where there is fairness with private parties where almost 500 people crowd. We are plague victims, to believe that we serve coronavirus shooters while we are professionals, "plague the DJ who fears that the village festivals are also canceled in July and August.

If I understand correctly: instead of having a nightclub I am going to set up a bar: last confined, first deconfigured, late opening until 4 am (1 hour before the clubs) ... Brief customer theft and nightclub deaths! !! @UMIH_France #afedd # macron20h

His brother, who practices the same profession as him, saw his book of evenings cut by 50 dates this summer. All hope that the lifting of the state of health emergency will find loopholes in the system so that mayors and prefects allow certain places to reopen.

For Jymmy Santovito, the sector certainly suffers from its bad image or prejudices. “It is not because some discotheques are fully booked in the evening that they stuff themselves. Many clubs do not have cash ”, continues the organizer who hopes to demonstrate the role of these places still confined today.

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