The Council of State validates the closure of cinemas and theaters

The Council of State, in Paris.

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The Council of State, which was considering this Wednesday on the closure of cinemas and theaters announced on December 10 by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, validated this closure, in view of the "health context" and the "risk of increased the short-term epidemic ”.

Seized by cultural professionals, the highest administrative court however gave them partially right by specifying that if the situation were to improve on the coronavirus front, "their closure could not be maintained for the sole reason that there is a risk ”of contamination in these places.

Monday, before the highest administrative court, the representative of the Ministry of Health, Charles Touboul, had recognized that no study proved that these places were more conducive to contamination, but recalled the existence of "risks".

The artists and those in charge of cultural structures denounced a difference in treatment with cults or shops.

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