Gauthier Delomez 2:44 p.m., January 23, 2022, modified at 2:44 p.m., January 23, 2022

Nightclub managers will be able to reopen their establishment on February 16, after more than two months of closure.

On Europe 1, the spokesperson for a group of professionals pointed to the announcement effects on the promised aid and regretted a still "fuzzy" protocol concerning the reopening.

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Sunday, the boss of the Antique in Béthune, in Pas-de-Calais, and spokesperson for the SOS CHRD collective (for cafes, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs) did the accounts in the nightclub sector: of the 1,600 nightclubs in France at the start of 2020, 300, or nearly 20%, will not be able to reopen their doors on February 16, the date the restrictions are lifted by the government.

"We have been announced a reopening, but it is above all the additional closure for four weeks that we see," he said, exasperated by recent government decisions.

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The vagueness of the reopening conditions

“We are closed for four more weeks, while a study by the AP-HP stipulates that there is no over-risk of propagation (of the virus) in discotheques. We have had no cluster since September, and at the moment, 6,000 party rooms are open", explained Morgan Dalle, who now wishes to turn to February 16.

But the conditions for reopening are still "fuzzy": "There is a lot of conditional. We have not been given the outlines (gauges, masks). We have the impression that we are being used as political leverage a few weeks before the presidential election. Will our openness be sustainable?"

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These promised aids that have still not arrived

If the manager of a nightclub in Béthune cannot estimate his loss of turnover, he specifies that he has not received any help.

"Since the first day of closure until today, I have not had a single euro paid into the account. Partial unemployment has not yet been paid. We were also promised specific cells for aid We still haven't had anything", lamented Morgan Dalle, who regretted at the microphone of Thierry Dagiral that his sector of activity was "the only one which was closed for almost two years, without having a major economic plan".

The Minister Delegate for SMEs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, nevertheless reaffirmed the government's support for professionals in the sector and praised their patience in this health crisis.

"The aid may have been launched administratively, but in reality, there is nothing," said Morgan Dalle.