Their doors will remain closed for a while. The Council of State estimated Monday that the prolonged closing of the discotheques was not "disproportionate", rejecting an appeal of these to reopen their doors, if only by offering a bar service.
The nightclubs were hoping to reopen on July 10, but the government has cited too great a risk of spreading the coronavirus.
The distraught profession
The high administrative jurisdiction dismissed the National Union of Discotheques and Places of Leisure (SNDLL) of an application for interim measures against the government's decision to prolong the closing of the discotheques.
"In view of the closed nature of the establishments in question, the nature of the physical activity of the dance and the difficulty of guaranteeing the wearing of a mask or compliance with the rules of social distancing in a festive context, it does not appear not "that the operating ban issued by the government" is (...) disproportionate, "said the Council of State. "We let the bars do the nightclub but we refuse to discotheques the right to operate in bars," lamented SNDLL's lawyer, Me Henri de Beauregard.
"At a time when we reopen the stadiums, the combat sports training halls ... this decision also shows a form of mistrust towards the discos", he regretted. "Half of the clubs will disappear", or about 800 nightclubs if a reopening is not decreed until September, had for his part estimated on July 12 Matthieu Lebrun, spokesman for the managers of nightclubs of Normandy, came to demonstrate with some 200 other professionals near the Ministry of Health, in the center of Paris.
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The discos want to reopen before September and seize the Council of State
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