The Enfoirés concerts, which were to bring together some 50,000 spectators in Montpellier (Hérault) from January 20 to 24, will finally be recorded without an audience at the South of France Arena, the Restos du Coeur announced on Tuesday, which appealed to the State to compensate 4 million euros of ticket office loss.

"Unfortunately, this situation has significant financial consequences for the future funding of social assistance missions for the Restos du Cœur", lamented in a statement the charity.

Due to the pandemic, the concert had already been played without an audience last year, in Lyon, but this decision was then anticipated, and no ticket had been put on sale.

Only a video capture

This year, on the other hand, most of the tickets (from 65 to 90 euros) had already been sold for the six performances, that is to say six times 8,300 places in a room in a reduced configuration, with only seats. The explosion of the Omicron variant, and the government decision to impose a maximum capacity of 2,000 people indoors, led the organizers to cancel the public presence and to refund the tickets. The forty or so artists planned will only take part in a video capture, with a view to broadcasting on TF1 in March and the sale of CDs and DVDs.

This decision "is heartbreaking, but it was the only solution," Patrice Douret, president of Restos du cœur, told AFP.

“These 4 million euros were already provided for in our budgets.

They are bound to be missed.

And when we know that we are helping 1.2 million beneficiaries, it is worrying, ”added the volunteer, who said“ hope for a rapid response ”from the state so that it eventually compensates for this loss.

In the 2019-2020 fiscal year, before the Covid-19 epidemic, the Enfoirés reported to the Restos du Cœur 15.7 million euros net after tax, according to the association.

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