This year, the Bordeaux zombie walk will celebrate its 10th anniversary.

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Zombie walk Bordeaux

  • Due to the acceleration of the circulation of the virus in recent days, the prefecture said Friday that "Halloween will not be celebrated this year.

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  • The organizers of the Zombie Walk for their part believe that they are not linked to Halloween, and ensure that their health protocol is compatible with the requirements of the authorities.

  • They even want to make this 2020 edition an educational event to remind people to pay attention to the virus and to respect barrier gestures.

Will the coronavirus pandemic take the skin of the Zombie Walk in Bordeaux?

It will play its last cartridges this Wednesday, during a final meeting which must seal the fate of the 2020 edition of the event.

Because despite a letter from the town hall, indicating that the commission of public demonstrations issued an unfavorable opinion to the organization of the event, the organizer, Franck Bonhomme, does not want to let go of the case.

He scheduled the parade on Saturday October 31, Halloween day, at 4:30 p.m., departing from Place de la Bourse.

But in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, is it reasonable to maintain such an event?

Especially since the latest trends concerning the circulation of the virus in Gironde are not good, the prefecture stressed on Friday, which also announced that "Halloween will not be celebrated this year.

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Lowered gauge and social distancing between participants

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, Franck Bonhomme indicates that his event “has nothing to do with Halloween, it is also exceptional that we are organizing it on the same day this year.

He especially emphasizes that he will propose a very strict sanitary protocol, compatible according to him with the requirements of the authorities.

“We are lowering the gauge to 500 people, and we are prepared to lower it further to 200 depending on the situation.

We are not trying to have a lot of people, moreover there will be no music, because that brings people together.

And all the zombies would obviously be masked.

But what about the ban on gatherings of more than six people in public space, extended for three weeks by the prefecture last Friday?

"Our parade will start from the Place de la Bourse, in small groups of six, or even four if necessary," retorts the organizer.

“We proposed four routes, knowing that the most direct is the one that goes through rue Saint-Remi then rue Porte-Dijeaux to reach the Le Français cinema, all over a period of two hours instead of the usual four. .

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The zombie character, the most able to convey a health message

Franck Bonhomme explains that he specifically wants to use the Zombie Walk "to convey the message that the virus is there, that we must be wary of it and respect health instructions as well as social distancing, but by continuing to live .

He believes that the zombie character is best able to convey this message.

"Many of us think that our event is particularly relevant this year, because the zombie is the symbol of what is wrong, it is the mirror of the errors of humanity ... And the zombie is generally run by a virus , hence the idea of ​​designing a walk for educational purposes.

"The organizer also explains having carried out scouting on Saturday in the center of Bordeaux, and ensures that" it is not a few hundred people in small groups of six who will change anything in the population density in the streets.

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"The level of contamination brings the Gironde closer" to the curfew

The prefect of Gironde said for her part on Friday that "the incidence rate has gone from 98.6 per 100,000 inhabitants to 115.2 in one week (+ 17%) for the entire department.

»It reached 146.6 for the metropolis and rises to 205.9 in Bordeaux.

She ensures that "this level of contamination, but especially its acceleration this week, brings the Gironde closer to the thresholds from which the curfew becomes necessary.

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Under these conditions, the measures put in place since September have been extended by three weeks.

She also asks to avoid “private gatherings and mixing between generations.

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