Benjamin Peter, edited by Gauthier Delomez 1:19 pm, September 09, 2021

Restaurant owners in a small town in Tarn-et-Garonne refuse to check their client's health pass, which has been compulsory since August 9.

Europe 1 met these "diehards" who risk at any time an administrative closure of their premises.

They are ready to do anything to refuse to control the health pass, even if it means risking a temporary administrative closure.

Restorers from Tarn-et-Garonne have decreed an anti-pass "free zone" in the town of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val since the measure came into force on August 9.

One of them has just suffered a closure of its premises for a period of one week.

Europe 1 set out to meet these "irreducible" restaurateurs.

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Customers first say they want to support their action.

They took more than an hour by car to come and eat specially on the terrace, and we did not ask them anything before settling down.

"That's why we are in this village," confirms one of them.

"I am vaccinated, but I do not agree with a deprivation of liberty," she continues.

"Everyone is admitted, with or without a pass"

On the front of Victor's restaurant, one can read "free zone".

Like him, there are ten of them in the village to display this badge.

The restaurateur explains his choice: "It is not necessarily the act of scanning that is the most annoying. It is the act of sorting the people entering according to their choice of vaccination or their choice of health. pure segregation. Everyone is admitted, whether with or without a pass. "

But the professionals of the sector are exposed to a closure of their establishment.

Recently, the prefecture has stepped up checks.

The café de la Halle, emblematic of the city center, had to close its doors for a week.

Sébastien, whose restaurant is right across the street, doesn't want to be intimidated.

"We are not here to control people"

"I was warned by the gendarmes that I was surely going to undergo checks", explains the restaurateur.

"To undergo controls because we do not control people, it is a little strange as a situation", he underlines.

Before specifying his approach: "We are not here to discuss the vaccine. Everyone has the right to do as they want. On the other hand, we, as restaurateurs, we are not there to control people. It's a certainty. "

A support rally is scheduled for Thursday evening in front of the Halle café, closed by the authorities, to reaffirm their opposition to the health pass.