Forty Parisian shopping centers, in the inner and outer suburbs, will require the health pass at their entrance from this Monday, August 16, 2021.
It becomes – gradually – your constant companion as soon as you cross the threshold of your door to go outside: the health pass. It is currently compulsory in cultural and leisure places, but also in bars, restaurants, long-distance transport and in medico-social establishments for non-urgent cases. As a reminder, it consists of the digital (via the TousAntiCovid application) or paper presentation of health proof, among the following three: a complete vaccination (two doses of vaccine), a negative RT-PCR or antigen test of less 72 hours or proof of recovery from Covid-19.
But from this Monday, August 16, 2021, the health pass becomes compulsory in certain shopping centers of more than 20,000 m² located in the inner Ile-de-France region – in Paris, in Hauts-de-Seine, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Val -de-Marne – and in Val-d’Oise. The prefectures of these departments issued orders in this direction on Saturday, in accordance with a government decision to extend the health pass to shopping centers of more than 20,000 m² in departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 cases. positive per 100,000 population.
The places concerned in Paris, in the inner suburbs and the other Ile-de-France departments
The shopping centers concerned are presented below:
In Paris:
- In the capital, nine shopping centers are affected:
- The Italy 2 center (XIIIth arrondissement)
- The Beaugrenelle center (15th century)
- The Vill’up center (19th century)
- The BHV Marais (Paris center)
- Galeries Lafayette, dome building (9th century)
- Le Printemps Haussmann (9th century)
- The Good Market (VIIth)
- La Samaritaine (Paris Center)
- The Aéroville shopping center in Roissy-en-France (Val d’Oise).
The police headquarters also specified in its decree that wearing a mask will be compulsory.
In the Val-de-Marne:
- Belle Epine in Thiais
- Val de Fontenay and Périval in Fontenay-sous-Bois
- Vache Noire shopping center in Arcueil
- Quays of Ivry shopping center in Ivry-sur-Seine
- Okabé at the Kremlin-Bicêtre
- Bercy 2 in Charenton-le-Pont
- Clamp Wind in Ormesson / Chennevières
- Ikea stores in Villiers-sur-Marne and in Thiais
In Seine-Saint-Denis:
- The Millennium, Aubervilliers
- O’Parinor, Aulnay-sous-Bois
- Bel Est, Bagnolet
- Bel Air, Blanc-Mesnil
- Future, Drancy
- L’Ilo, Epinay-sur-Seine
- The Great Gate, Montreuil
- Les Arcades, Noisy-le-Grand
- Domus, Rosny-sous-Bois
- Westfield Rosny II, Rosny-sous-Bois
- Carrefour, Stains
- Welcome, Villetaneuse
In the Hauts-de-Seine:
- The So-Ouest center in Levallois-Perret.
- Conforama store in Colombes.
In the Val-d’Oise:
- On the Seine side, in Argenteuil
- The Three Fountains, in Cergy
- IKEA, in Fraconville
- IKEA Paris-Nord Roissy, in Gonesse
- Leclerc Modo, in Moisselles
- Carrefour Saint-Brice 95, in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
- My Place, in Sarcelles
- The gates of Taverny, in Taverny
Rules already in force in shopping centers
It should also be remembered that shopping centers of more than 20,000 m² are already subject to a strict health protocol, with in particular the wearing of a mandatory mask, the maintenance of barrier gestures and the gauges of one person every 8 m². Distributions of hydroalcoholic gel or disinfectant solutions for the hands are organized, as in the center of Beaugrenelle, in the 15th arrondissement. A machine dispensing gel is placed at the entrance.
Guest of the 19/20 of France 3 Paris Île-de-France, the general delegate of the National Council of Shopping Centers (CNCC) Gontran Thüring evokes a new “shopping center stigma“, further adding that the control of the sanitary pass in these places is not the same as in a bar or a restaurant. “The largest shopping centres, particularly in the Ile-de-France, welcome more than 50,000 people a day. This risks creating queues where social distancing will not necessarily be respected, or even incivility or sometimes violence from people who will not want to present their health pass.“, he specifies.
“30,000 euros monthly per entry”
Regarding the 20,000 m² criterion, Gontran Thüring mentions “a misunderstanding” within the government. The delegate clarified that these are the so-called square meters “useful“: commercial surface including those of sale – accessible to the public – and those of reserve. “If a shopping mall with around ten service shops of 3000 m² is backed by a hypermarket which is 18,000 m², well it will be subject to systematic control at the entrance to the center”, he said.
Mr. Thüring also highlights the “paradox“to ask to multiply the vaccinodromes in shopping centers, while”precisely, the people who come to be vaccinated will not have a health pass, therefore will not be able to be vaccinated“. What about the cost of the measure for shopping centres? Thanks to a simulation, the parameters of which (such as the time amplitude) can change, the imposition of the health pass should cost nearly “30,000 euros monthly per entry“. “For large shopping centers, which have ten or even fifteen entrances, this represents a significant cost for managers and owners.“.
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