Frédéric Hocquard told franceinfo that he “does not have the impression” that studies on Covid-19 show “that outdoor concerts with masks and health passes are the main clusters”.
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“We did it a little forced and forced“, regrets the deputy for tourism and the nightlife of the mayor of Paris, Frédéric Hocquard, this Saturday on franceinfo, after the announcement of the cancellation of the fireworks and the concert initially planned on the Champs-Elysées on the evening of December 31st to celebrate the New Year. Yet he thinks that outdoor events are not the “main clusters“.
“We weren’t really given a choice“, he explains the day after a press conference by the Prime Minister in which he asked the municipalities to give up their large gatherings on New Year’s Eve. The Paris police headquarters and the Regional Health Agency from Île-de-France sent a letter to the town hall of Paris on Friday evening, “if we maintained this concert without the authorization of the prefecture and the ARS, for once we would put people in danger, so obviously that is a decision of the city“.
“What I find unfortunate is that we were in the open air, with sanitary pass, with mask“, notes the deputy, recalling that a gauge of 100,000 spectators was planned, that the wearing of the mask had to be obligatory as well as the possession of a valid sanitary pass.
Frédéric Hocquard did “not the impression, when we look at the studies of the Institut Pasteur or all the other studies, that the outdoor concerts with masks and sanitary pass are the main clusters“.”We often have the impression that when there are restrictions, they always fall in the same place. The last time was the nightclubs, which were closed, now it’s the party of December 31st that we are asked to stop“, laments the nightlife assistant.