For a week now, about fifty intermittent performers have occupied the Parisian Odeon theater to demand an extension of the white year, as well as the reopening of cultural venues.

Europe 1 went to meet these actors, musicians and technicians. 

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"We demand an extension of the white year."

As every day for a week now, the intermittents who peacefully occupy the Parisian theater of the Odeon organize two general assemblies per day.

In addition to an extension of the white year [the extension of compensation rights,

editor's note

] until August 2022, they also want to see the theaters reopen as soon as possible.

Because the promise of Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot to put 20 million euros on the table to help the sector is not enough, according to the demonstrators. 

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"There are a lot of people who will not be working after the opening of the theaters"

"It's a crumb," said at the microphone of Europe 1 Karine Huet, deputy general secretary of SNAM-CGT (National Union of Syndicates of Artists Musicians of France), who is one of some 50 people who occupy the theater.

"There are a lot of people who will not work after the opening of the theaters. We must secure them so that they can have the right to unemployment a little longer in order to hold out until the end of this whole story. . "

"We are very far from what we ask," adds Rebecca, an actress who also occupies the Odeon.

The 20 million euros promised by the government made her "laugh yellow", she explains to Europe 1 between the "banner commission" and the "supply commission", which lists what is missing to hold the seat of the theater

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And if the comfort is far from being at the rendezvous, Rebecca assures him, "we know why we're here, so we don't think about it".

Not to mention that to soften the mores, a brass band plays every day on the steps in front of the theater.

One way for these intermittents to make themselves heard in a different way.

And it is clear that it works, at least in part, since the occupations of cultural places are multiplying in France with now about ten rooms concerned.