This summer, festivals could manage not to drown in the new wave of coronavirus.

Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said she was confident on Saturday for the holding of these, without "reducing the gauges" or other "constraints"

After more than two years punctuated by the pandemic, France is undergoing, like other European countries, the resumption of Covid-19 carried by new sub-variants of the Omicron family.

“You have to be very vigilant, wash your hands, resume barrier gestures (…) test yourself every time you have a doubt”, first indicated the minister visiting Hellfest, a metal festival in Clisson in Loire Atlantique.

“However, we are vaccinated in France, normally we have no risk of putting back constraints or reducing the gauges.

The festivals this summer will, if all goes well, go well,” she added.

“Highly contagious but less violent” subvariants

Rima Abdul Malak pointed out that the seventh wave subvariants are "highly contagious but less violent in terms of symptoms".

And to remember, “when you are a fragile person, you have to keep the mask on and be careful as much as possible”.

Another shadow hangs over the summer festivities: complaints of injections in nightclubs, bars and festivals are piling up across the whole of France.

But the evidence is still lacking to determine the reality of these malicious acts.

"This phenomenon has me very concerned," said the Minister.

"In reality, it's really a mystery, there is a phenomenon of psychosis more than a real phenomenon," she said.

“There are a few stings, it exists, but much less than the psychosis that came out of it”.

“There is no substance in these bites when they are found, no aggression in the aftermath,” she insisted.

“It would seem, once again, it is conditional because it is very mysterious, that it started from a challenge on social networks.

Let’s not give in to psychosis”.

The Guns “29 years later”

About her visit today, Rima Abdul Malak says she came to Hellfest because "it's the biggest festival in France".

After two editions canceled due to health crisis, this festival offers a double program, over seven days in total, attracting 420,000 spectators.

"On a more personal note, the first concert of my life at 14 was the Guns N'Roses", further confided the minister.

This group was scheduled for Saturday at Hellfest and the minister had therefore planned to see it again “29 years later”.

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