“We have neither the capacity nor the possibility” to carry out identity checks, estimates the UMIH-restoration

“We have neither the capacity nor the possibility” to verify the identity of customers, “so we’re going to do as usual and it’s going to stop there”, said Friday, January 21 on franceinfo Jean Terlon, vice-president of UMIH-catering, the catering branch of the Union des Métiers et des Industrie de l’Hôtellerie, owner of the restaurant “Le Saint-Pierre” in Longjumeau . The Constitutional Council validated this Friday the possible identity checks by cafeterias or restaurateurs during the checks of the vaccination pass.

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franceinfo: Will this change things for you?

John Terlon: No, we had a health pass now a vaccination pass to check, so we’re going to do as usual and it’s going to stop there. The Constitutional Council recommended that this identity check be very supervised and that care should be taken that there is no discrimination. The Constitutional Council should have withdrawn this article which serves absolutely no purpose. Our obligation is to control a health pass, if it is faulty it is the problem of those who made it and it is not ours.

So you’re not going to control the customers?

We do not have time. Our obligation is to let in customers who have a health pass that indicates the color green. So the police will do as usual when they check restaurants, they will check sanitary passes, we have neither the capacity nor the possibility and we don’t want to be in conflict with the customer, unless you have a huge thing a man instead of a woman or vice versa.

“We are not going to put ourselves in complicated situations. So this measure is useless, it will not prevent the epidemic from evolving.”

Jean Terlon, vice-president of UMIH-restoration

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Are you satisfied with the gradual lifting of the gradual lifting of restrictions?

We finally have a schedule. Teleworking is a huge drain on catering so we have to hope that we are at the end of it. These last-minute measures for the vaccine pass are not of much use.