The Pyrenees still hope to see skiers at Christmas

In a ski resort in the Pyrenees.

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Avoid "an economic catastrophe".

This is the slogan for the mobilization of several hundred mountain professionals who took part in a solidarity march in Bagnères-de-Luchon, south of Haute-Garonne, on Friday to demand the opening of ski resorts. for the Christmas holidays.

To prevent the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the government has decided to ban the opening of ski areas, including ski lifts, for the Christmas holidays.

Territorialized health measures

“Economically, it's a disaster.

It is the death of our valleys, insists the initiator of the event and spokesperson for the Haut Comminges collective, Christophe Deschamps, owner of a guest house in Luchon.

We wonder how we can crowd into the metro and not be able to go on a four-man chairlift and descend a slope with the family ”.

"Some departments have their emergency departments saturated, but not with us," says Manon Escoubet, restaurateur on the Superbagnères estate, who defends territorialized health measures.

Faced with the excitement of mountain professionals, several regions, including New Aquitaine and Occitanie, filed Thursday a summary of freedom before the Council of State against this decision of the government.

On the other side of the Pyrenees, the Spanish Ministry of Health indicated on Friday that it was still negotiating with the regions as well as with France for a possible opening of its ski resorts.

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