In Marseille, the closure of restaurants respected with a few exceptions

Only restaurants offering take-away sales remain open in Marseille.

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• Bars and restaurants closed Sunday evening after the decision of Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

• Very few bars have defied this ban despite the anger that won over professionals in the sector after the government's announcement.

• The only establishments still open offer take-away sales, either to save furniture or to keep an activity.

Queues in front of bakeries and Caesar salads swallowed up on a bench.

The Marseillais and Marseillaises are organizing as best they can to eat this Monday noon, after the closure of bars and restaurants decreed by the Minister of Health Olivier Veran.

A decision that animated Marseille all weekend with a closure first scheduled for Saturday and then finally postponed to Sunday evening.

On the Place Estienne d'Orves, very popular for lunch a few steps from the Old Port, it's dead calm.

It only activates in a few addresses, such as Café Simon.

“No, we are closed.

We do a big cleaning, ”explain the waiters amid the dozens of glasses left on the tables.

Takeaway

A little further on, the rows of tables and chairs on the terraces have given way to take-out signs.

“We had already done it at the start of the deconfinement, so we're starting over.

It is not to save the furniture, we do not save it, it is above all to continue to have an activity and not to feel morally useless ”, confides Corinne of the

creperie

, located in the district of the opera.

But at half past twelve, no customer had come to get food.

A new blow for these traders installed for a year who have already seen the work in this recently renovated district.

“It's a shame because people were starting to come back for a walk around here, it ruins everything.

It's really hard, you have to have broad shoulders.

All the postponements of the confinement charges fell this month, it is really not the right time, ”she laments.

The surroundings of the Place Estienne d'Orves are deserted after the closure of bars and restaurants.

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The only hope is the summary filed by local authorities and groups of business leaders and catering professionals and studied this Tuesday by the administrative court.

“It's good that they are fighting against power.

But we do not really believe in a favorable outcome to this approach.

Nor to a revision of the ban in a week.

To be honest, we are even afraid that it will be a little longer than 15 days ”, worries Corinne.

Little opening

Rue Sainte, where restaurants follow one another, tables have been set up in front of

.

One of the restaurateurs who had announced defying the ban.

“Oh no, I do take out.

I didn't have much time to communicate, I didn't stop for the weekend.

My clients, mostly lawyers, had asked me if I was take out.

I had not done any during the confinement, but there the center continues to live so I decided to do it and that's always what fits, ”explains Olivier.

They are also very rare to have opened on Monday afternoon when many had warned all weekend that they would not close.

“I don't know any, no.

My colleagues made this announcement because they were angry.

But they don't want to put themselves in danger.

We respect the decree while waiting for the hearing before the administrative court, ”says Bernard Marty, president of the Union of trades and hospitality industry (Umih) of Bouches-du-Rhône.

, which served mussels and fries on the terrace, is one of the few to have seen the CRS disembark to force it to close.

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