The practice is illegal, but more and more stores are using it. Many people on social media say they have been banned from shopping with their children due to the coronavirus epidemic. This is the case of Laurence, 46, who had to negotiate to return to a Paris store with her 6-year-old daughter. "It must not happen again," she reacts on Europe 1.
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A single mother, Laurence had no choice but to take her daughter to the grocery store. But upon entry, this Parisian ran into the refusal of the vigil. "He said to us: 'You can go back, but on the other hand, the little girl will wait at the cash desk'". Shocked, Laurence refuses. "She won't wait, I won't leave a 6-year-old child alone without supervision."
"We are treated like plague victims"
"You know, your children can be healthy carriers, they endanger other people," then said the store manager in person, still according to the testimony of the mother. "I have no choice at all, I am a single parent, it is written on my certificate," retorts Laurence.
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Finally allowed to enter with her daughter, Laurence then had to face the looks of the other customers. "We are treated like plague victims," she says, "everyone is moving away from us, we are alone on the shelves, people are waiting until we are finished before passing."
"What is most shocking is for my daughter. Once we left the store, she thanked me for not having abandoned her," laments Laurence. "She understood that she was considered a public danger. I think that others would have been afraid and would have left, or would have felt ashamed."