"I will not close!" : in Marseille, Véran faced with the grumbling of restaurateurs

"Let Olivier Véran start from the beginning: put money back in hospitals!"

Like several hundred restaurateurs and cafetiers supported by certain local elected officials, Noëlle came to demonstrate this Friday against the total closure of bars and restaurants in the metropolis of Aix-Marseille for 15 days before the local Commercial Court.

A building located not far from the Timone hospital, where the Minister of Health Olivier Véran held a press conference. 

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Véran wants to "protect the Marseillais"

"It's been six months that we have been told that there is a lack of beds, that the hospital is not doing well ... we had to anticipate", proclaims Noëlle at the microphone of Europe 1 in reaction to the minister's statements.

The latter explained earlier in the afternoon wanting to prevent Marseille hospitals from deprogramming operations to be able to cope with an influx of Covid patients.

"My only objective is to protect the Marseillais. It is not to take the risk that they cannot follow their cancer treatment, that they cannot be operated on following a health problem."

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A wind of civil disobedience

But this argument does not seem to hit the mark with the demonstrators, nor with the local elected officials who came to support them like Samia Ghali.

The deputy mayor of Marseille even warned on Twitter: "if this decision is upheld, the city of Marseille will not help to put in place the closures."

A real wind of political civil disobedience is therefore blowing over the city of Marseille and the restaurateurs intend to seize the ball. 

# RESISTANCE |

Before the Commercial Court in support of cafetiers, bars and restaurants in the face of unjustified and unilateral decisions by @gouvernementFR.

If this decision is maintained, the city @marseille will not assist in implementing the closures.

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- Samia GHALI (@SamiaGhali) September 25, 2020

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"I am going into resistance"

"We will not let ourselves die, we must fight! I will not close, I am going into resistance", confirms at the microphone of Europe 1 Céline, restaurateur came from Aubagne to demonstrate.

"We are very discreet, we are rather the good children of this society but there, enough is enough."

Staying open at all costs, this is the strategy of some restaurateurs.

But according to Céline, if they come to such an end, it is because they have no choice.

"It's either I die or I die! But I'd rather die standing! I have five children, a family to support, I can't leave it like this."

A stubbornness that neither the exemption from social charges announced Thursday evening by Prime Minister Jean Castex, nor the reality of the figures for the health situation can bend.

"The figures can be manipulated, we do not see anything", argues Céline.