Sport: proportional gauges in the enclosures if the health situation improves

Europe 1 with AFP 6:03 p.m., January 04, 2022

The principle of gauges proportional to the size of the sports grounds, rejected Monday evening by the vote of a government amendment in the National Assembly, can only be considered "in favor of a positive development in the health situation" the Sports Ministry said on Tuesday.

Monday evening, before the debate on the bill creating the vaccine pass was suspended in the Assembly, the deputies adopted a government amendment which requires to take into account both "the health situation" and "the characteristics The establishments".

"An endless debate", considers Olivier Véran

As part of the measures to curb the Covid-19 epidemic, a gauge set at 5,000 people outside and 2,000 inside came into force on Monday for a period of three weeks. Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, reiterated in the hemicycle his opposition to a principle of proportional gauges, which, according to him, leads to "counting square meters, as we have seen with shopping centers (.. .) it is an endless debate, which in the end is more likely to kill the device ".

Asked about France Inter, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Tuesday morning that the gauges applied, while adding, without further details, that it was necessary "to be pragmatic".

"We forget any principle of proportionality, that's clear," reacted Magali Tézenas du Montcel, general delegate of the Sporsora association which brings together sports players.

Asked by AFP, she is sorry to hear the Minister of Health speak of a "gas factory" on the subject of proportionality: "it is to ignore all the work that has been done for months "on flow management for example.

Government opposition

Pushed by sports players, the deputies voted in committee last week for an amendment allowing proportionality of the gauges but the government had said its opposition this weekend.

"In favor of a positive evolution of the health situation and the adoption of the new provisions provided for in the bill under consideration, the rules relating to these large gauges may be brought to evolve", indicated the Ministry of Sports to AFP on Tuesday.

"We want to avoid the phenomenon of supercontamination", argued the Minister of Health Monday evening, referring to the "crowded metro" to go to the Parc des Princes as well as the tram in Lyon to get to the stadium.