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The end-of-year celebrations are, for the second consecutive year, placed under the sign of caution. The government has put in place measures to limit gatherings. The city of Paris, among others, has canceled its festivities.
No fireworks or festive atmosphere around the Arc de Triomphe (Paris), this December 31. For New Year’s Eve 2021, like the previous year, the festivities are canceled. “We do not see the end of it all. We are stopped all our activities, all the things that bring us together”, laments a young woman, met in the afternoon of Saturday, December 18 on the Champs-Elysées. Another believes that it is necessary “trying to limit the damage of this whole epidemic”.
On December 31, Gabriel Legrand should have prepared the fireworks in the capital. His contract of 50,000 euros was canceled, a loss of 50% of his turnover for the month of December. “We do not know at all when we will be able to resume, and now we will have to call all those for the month of January, February, March, to find out what is going on”, confides the pyrotechnician and general manager of Arteventia. At Sébastien Guil, a caterer in Bordeaux (Gironde), the kitchens are empty, and the employees are on short-time work. This month alone, 40 events have been canceled. At Café Maritime, no one will dance this year: customers will stay at their table. Faced with the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic, the government called on all town halls in France to give up the planned festivities.