The book sellers had notably highlighted the fragility of these boxes in their refusal to free the quays of the Seine, believing that many of their colleagues will not be able to survive the weeks of inactivity imposed by dismantling.
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Book sellers will remain on the banks of the Seine. Emmanuel Macron has decided to abandon the planned movement of the second-hand booksellers’ boxes installed on the river quays in preparation for the opening ceremony of next summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, the Elysée announced on Tuesday February 13. “Noting that no consensual and reassuring solution could be identified with these actors”, “the President of the Republic asked the Minister of the Interior and the Paris Police Prefect that all second-hand booksellers be preserved, and let none of them be forced to be displaced.”explains the Elysée.
The number of second-hand booksellers’ boxes along the Seine which were to be removed for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26 had already been lowered from 604 to 428 by the police headquarters in January. A proposal which did not convince the main stakeholders: lAt the general assembly of the Cultural Association of Booksellers of Paris, on January 19, nearly 130 of them (out of around 180 members) decided to take legal action. “legal action in the administrative court” to contest this transaction.
The second-hand booksellers, who notably highlight the fragility of these boxes in their refusal to free the quays of the Seine, believe that many of their colleagues will not be able to survive the weeks of inactivity imposed by the dismantling, restoration and reassembly of their tool. work.
