Covid-19: “It’s unfair that boxes close”

Due to the health crisis, the discos were imposed on Thursday, December 9, a closure for four weeks. “Le Monde” spent this last evening in a club of the capital.

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The decision has fallen Monday, to the chagrin of the owners, managers, musicians and other actors of the world of the night. At the end of a health defense council, Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced the closure of some 1,200 French nightclubs, for four weeks, as of Friday, December 10th. Also concerned the bars and restaurants, which remain open, but where it is now forbidden to dance. For good reason: according to The Comcor Study of the Institut Pasteur , the nightclubs would constitute a contamination surrecounder nearly 8 times higher for children under 40. Diving, timed, in a Parisian evening.

23:30. After a few glasses with friends, the crowd arrives at once in front of the doors of Java, a club of 10 e arrondissement. Some television cameras will immortalize the ultimate one-year festival under the sign of COVID-19. The long queue that wishes largely on the sidewalk does not despite, despite a swing rain that quenches the hair well capped and clothes carefully chosen in order not to be recalled from the entrance. Feverish people even have big smiles, aware of the absurdity of the moment, and perhaps also by solidarity for the world of the night, last to reopen at the end of the summer and first to close them this Friday morning.

Finally in front of the entrance, Damien and Stefan Trefan of impatience: “We are huge amateurs of house music. Both, we are from Picardie, come especially to see the one who plays tonight … it’s our Cousin! Fortunately it has not been completely canceled. Otherwise, we are looking for a afternoon. We can come to your house? “

00 h 45. Inside, everyone finds the strand of lightness that he came to get. We dance, we drink and mix with less precaution that usually, according to the very classic codes which are those of a nightclub, forever. Marc, 60, is a former professor of philosophy in high school. He came with a couple of friends, sports great surprised eyes to meet in the midst of all those old teenagers, or young adults. “I never go out in a box, it would almost justify it, but I found it important tonight. The young people have fallen severe this year, they have the right to have fun like us in our time. We must do Attention with the virus, certainly, but we can not ask the youth to rationalize “. The music takes over.

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