While festivals are imposed a health pass beyond 1,000 people, amusement parks are not subject to this obligation.

"We are in a total incomprehension, a frustration, that's what annoys us a little", criticizes Thomas Maindron, the director of the Poupet festival, Sunday evening at the microphone of Europe 1.

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Thomas Maindron is not angry about the obligation of the health pass to access festivals, over 1,000 people, because of the Covid.

And the meeting which took place this week with the Ministry of Culture did not calm the director of the Vendée festival in Poupet.

"We are in a total incomprehension, a frustration, that's what annoys us a little", he criticizes Sunday evening at the microphone of Europe 1. Why such annoyance?

First, because there is a difference in treatment between festivals and amusement parks, according to Thomas Maindron.

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"It has to be the same for everyone!"

While festivals are subject to this health pass obligation, "we learned on June 9 that there are amusement parks that have permission to accommodate 5,000 people outdoors without a health pass," regrets Thomas Maindron. For the director, it is the last straw that broke the camel's back. Especially since festivals must always be held in the open air with a seated and masked audience for the moment. "How can we justify to our festival-goers that in an amusement park there is no health pass when the situations are comparable? That's what is incredible ... It has to be the same for everybody !"

Thomas Maindron therefore calls for more "consistency" on the part of the authorities.

For him, "either [the situation] is dangerous and we have a health pass for everyone, or it is not there is no (health pass)".

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"Not feasible in the field"

The director of the Poupet festival, scheduled for July 1 to 17 in Saint-Malô-du-Bois, finally judges that the health pass is "not feasible in the field" and promises "problems very quickly compared to this health pass ". "In Saint-Malô-du-Bois, it's a bit rural and we don't have the test force to address the needs," he concludes.