A hall of the wholesale market of Rungis, in the Paris region, was requisitioned, Thursday, April 2, to accommodate the coffins of the victims of Covid-19, announced the Paris police headquarters.

"Large capacity", it can "accommodate the first coffins this Friday and families will have access from Monday," she said in a statement.

The coronavirus has killed more than 4,000 people in France. A third of the deaths recorded in the country's hospitals were in Île-de-France, badly hit by the pandemic.

"Tension across the funeral chain"

The prefect of Police, Didier Lallement, decided to open this place to meet "the needs noted and to come" faced with "the tension that persists throughout the funeral chain, and which should last for several weeks yet" , is it specified.

This hall "offset and isolated from other pavilions" of the Rungis market will allow to keep, in "the most dignified and acceptable" sanitary conditions, "the coffins of the deceased while awaiting their burial or cremation, in France or abroad. 'foreign".

Lounges will be arranged to allow families to gather around the coffin of their loved one before their departure to a cemetery or a crematorium, it is added.

The place will be managed by a funeral operator with "all the expertise and experience required to support families with professionalism and humanity in the difficult times they are going through," concludes the prefecture.

With AFP

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