Place du Capitole during the second confinement, Toulouse.

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FRED SCHEIBER / SIPA

They are show producers, sports hall managers, restaurateurs and even caterers.

For several months, for some, their work has been limited to saving the damage resulting from the coronavirus crisis, amplified by confinement.

And often this takes the form of application forms for state aid to be completed.

This Friday, nearly a thousand entrepreneurs from Toulouse decided to mark the occasion on the Place du Capitole.

While confinement is once again in order, they are organizing a giant happening "while respecting barrier gestures".

⚠️ Exceptional mobilization for a “protest performance” 🤔



🗣Friday November 6 at 2:30 pm Place du Capitole in Toulouse



Only outcome: full compensation for the damage suffered for companies considered to be “non-essential”



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- CPME31 (@ cpme31) November 2, 2020

“Three out of five companies in these so-called non-essential sectors of activity risk disappearing in Haute-Garonne by next year.

If we force them to close, we need fair compensation for the damage suffered.

The government communicates on billions of aid, but companies tell us that they do not receive anything, they contract loans to repay ”, deplores Nicolas Poux, the general delegate of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises 31 (CPME), one of the entities at the initiative of this action.

No question of parading in the streets.

The entrepreneurs will stage from 2:30 p.m. what they consider today to be the beginning of the death of their activities.

If they are not opposed to the restrictive measures, "they deplore the contradictory injunctions", continues Nicolas Poux.

More than closing supermarket shelves, they would have preferred for example the opening of independent bookstores.

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