While the tourism, hotel-catering and cultural sectors have been at a standstill since the reconfinement at the end of October, professionals met on Monday at Les Invalides, in Paris.

The objective: to voice their dissatisfaction and to demand the assumption of responsibility for operating losses.

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"We are dying".

Some have been closed for months, and fear they will never be able to reopen.

With the re-containment linked to the coronavirus, hotels and restaurants had to close shop and saw their financial situation worsen.

Not to mention the nightclubs, which have not been able to welcome customers since March.

On Monday, professionals from these sectors met at the Invalides in Paris to demonstrate, while the government does not plan to reopen cafes and restaurants until at least January 20.

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"We agree, we are in a health crisis, it is very dangerous and we have understood the issue of containment and closure. But in these cases, why reopen certain places where people go? 'agglutinate? "asks Célia, a demonstrator from Gironde and present in the procession on Monday.

"On Saturday I went to do some shopping, there were huge queues in the stores, barrier gestures are not respected. And we are still on the floor while we put protocols in place from the start. Why we Forgot us once again? We just want to work, "she says. 

Clandestine parties "by dint of closing nightclubs"

An opinion that also shares Bernard, this other professional who made the trip from the PACA region: "They must have the courage to really tell us why we are closed. In Marseille, to take only this city, in the Saturday night, 500 people were celebrating. And there are plenty of parties like that, by dint of closing the discotheques. In these establishments it is however regulated, people are careful, we respect barrier gestures. But no , we prefer to let parties have parties indiscriminately. "

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In addition to voicing their discontent, the demonstrators urgently demanded that insurers take charge of their operating losses.

Because according to the latest figures from the sector, a third of professionals now plan to file for bankruptcy.