While in the midst of a health crisis the French remain confined to their homes, the couriers of the meal delivery platforms continue to work. They have no right of withdrawal or partial unemployment. "We try to protect ourselves as best we can," said one of them at the microphone of Europe 1.

"We try to protect ourselves as best we can but stop lying to each other: for pizza, the risk is enormous." Michael, 19, travels around Paris on his scooter 4 hours a day for a large pizza brand and to allow confined French people to eat. He, who has not been given any mask or gloves to protect himself from the Covid-19, wears a neck warmer and slides a handkerchief before his mouth when he delivers a client. Often he puts the pizza in front of the door, rings and walks away. "Some of our customers may even be infected with coronavirus, we don't know, but we end up in contact with them. To deliver what, a pizza? It's not necessary."

"We touch less than before and we take more risks"

Specialists in meal delivery - Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Stuart ... - whose orders are down, we also continue to turn. Signs even take advantage of confinement to launch promotions on menus. "They bet a lot on the fact that we don't have to log in to work but they put in place a whole strategy so that we can do it anyway," observes William, delivery man at Quimper. no unemployment, no specific aid, no leave… We really don't have a choice. "

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The delivery men have neither the right of withdrawal nor partial unemployment. Summary: "We touch less than before and we take more risks", concludes William. The platforms assure that the infected deliverers will be compensated but the conditions to obtain this compensation are very strict.

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Difficult also to enter the boxes and to meet the criteria which would make it possible to touch the aids promised by the government. "The platforms should suspend their activity, so that the deliverers are compensated in the same way as the self-employed who saw their activity suspended," calls Jérôme Pimot, former bicycle courier and founding member of the Collective of autonomous deliverers of Paris. It would also be a way to reduce the risk of spread.