After several days of negotiations with the executive, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo finally convinced. On June 2, the parks and gardens will reopen in Paris, while France has been unfinished for three weeks. At the microphone of Frédéric Taddeï, on Europe 1, Anne Hidalgo explained on Sunday why it was necessary to reopen these green spaces during the deconfinement. 

INTERVIEW

For three weeks, the Parisians deconfigured rediscover their city. But it is only on June 2 that they will be able to access the Parisian parks and gardens again. For the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, interviewed by Frédéric Taddeï Sunday in the streets of the capital, the opening of parks and gardens is a necessary step in the deconfinement of the city.

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According to Anne Hidalgo, during confinement, life in Paris was difficult to bear for its inhabitants. "I fought," she says. Because when the parks and gardens are closed, "we lose 8% of the surface of Paris," says the city councilor. "As we are in an extremely dense city - we still have 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometer - if we withdraw this 8%, it becomes stuffy and very difficult to live with," she continues. 

Find "measures that are fair"

After two and a half months of confinement, it was therefore necessary to find solutions, while preserving the health of Parisians. "The idea that containment was severe was obvious to me but from the moment we entered deconfinement, we needed measures that were just", says Anne Hidalgo, who takes the example of the opening of green spaces . "Opening the parks and gardens with the wearing of masks and a number of principles of barrier gestures was much less risky than letting people crowd in places where they had no place and were on top of each other. ", she points out. 

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But Anne Hidalgo had to face the government which refused, at the beginning of the deconfinement, to reopen the parks and gardens. "I regret that we could not at the time work more intelligently with the State to allow to loosen all these places like the Canal Saint-Martin," notes the mayor of Paris. 

Deserted Paris, scary Paris

If she admits having found Parisians "very reasonable" during confinement, she was rather marked by the image of Paris. "It was very hard, very sad and very scary because we tell ourselves that the city is shutting down," she says, recalling "this feeling that all life has disappeared because it there is no one "on the streets. This confinement was all the more strange for Paris since it "still coincided with winter," says Anne Hidalgo.

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The mayor was however delighted to see the arrival of the beautiful days. "Little by little, when spring began to arrive, we were also moving towards deconfinement, which coincided with the leaves of the trees which were beginning to appear and perhaps with a little glimmer and hope", recalls Anne Hidalgo.