Perpignan (AFP)
First in France: the RN mayor of Perpignan reopened four museums in the city on Tuesday, despite the prefecture which has taken legal action and the government which keeps all the country's museums closed due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
"There is a virus, we have it for a long time, we have to live with it. Variants there will be, viruses there will be. There are treatments, there is vaccination, there are all the precautions we take, we get used to it. And that starts by experimenting with things, "said Louis Aliot.
He was speaking to the press at the opening of the Hyacinthe Rigaud museum.
"I think the museum is a very nice place to do it because it's a place where you can control things as best as possible. We are on vacation. There is a youth who today is prevented from going to do sport, go to ski resorts. Let's open up museums and places of culture to them, "he added.
The prefect of the Pyrénées-Orientales seized Monday evening the administrative court of Montpellier of a request for the suspension of the reopening orders of the mayor of Perpignan.
"I have no news from the administrative tribunal," continued Mr. Aliot.
"I am waiting for the court registry to give me the summary. This should happen today (Tuesday) for a hearing normally scheduled tomorrow (Wednesday). I open the museum," he said.
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