The ecological mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet.

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"An unbearable injustice" in the words of the president of the Metropolis of Lyon Bruno Bernard.

The latter joined the ecological mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet to ask the Prime Minister this Sunday to reconsider his decision to close, for another three weeks, the rooms and cultural places, because of the health crisis.

“Thursday night's news is extremely violent for the cultural world in all its forms.

And for our inhabitants too: culture is an essential good that we sorely miss.

Sad end-of-year celebrations where moviegoers would be deprived of paintings, where wandering in museums would be prohibited, where the red armchairs in theaters would remain empty, where the music would be silent, underlines this Sunday in a Bruno Bernard press release.

The injustice is unbearable for those who repeated relentlessly and with passion to offer us all their emotions and their art on December 15th ”.

The government's decision is not better understood by Grégory Doucet, who believes that cultural players were perfectly able to apply and enforce health measures.

“During the period between two confinements, no cluster left cultural places.

We must preserve the health of each one, but also that of the social body.

The crises we are going through generate worrying tensions.

Culture is a powerful lever for social cohesion.

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To change the situation and support the cultural actors of the territory, the two men wrote this Sunday to Jean Castex.

If their request was not heard, "the city will support the Lyon cinemas in their appeal to the Council of State," said in a tweet the Lyon deputy for Culture Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert.

The city of Lyon, through its mayor, @Gregorydoucet, today asked the Prime Minister to reopen rooms and cultural places.


👉 If this is not the case, the City will support Lyon cinemas in their appeal to the Council of State ✊

- Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert (@NPG_Lyon) December 12, 2020

Repeated requests

This is not the first time that the mayor of Lyon and the president of the Metropolis have intervened with Matignon or the Elysee to try to obtain changes in health measures.

In early October, the two elected officials pleaded in favor of stopping the closure of bars at 10 p.m.

Then, at the end of November, Grégory Doucet wrote to President Emmanuel Macron to ask for the reopening of local shops "to prevent them from getting bogged down in an endless crisis".

Requests which have so far not succeeded in the direction desired by local elected officials.

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