The weekly market of Yutz reopened on Friday, April 17, with a prefectural derogatory order only for artisans and merchants of foodstuffs. The first step towards a full reopening on Friday May 15 with “90% of regular merchants”, says Bruno Sapin, mayor of Yutz. The air call thus created, itinerant passenger traders showed up last Friday to settle in and were turned away by the municipal police. Annoyed, “discriminated against,” according to Jessica D’Algrange, they turned back. ” They do not have the right. They are required to accept 30% of passengers, resumes the seller of cosmetic products who frequents the Yutz market only occasionally. We have the feeling that we do not have the support we need from the municipalities. I, for my part, alerted the National Federation of the markets of France so that it intervenes. Soraya de Trémery, also repressed, says she is “resigned”. “We have been deprived of markets for two months and when there is one which reopens, which we can finally hope to resume, we are prevented. It’s the double penalty, “insists the shoe merchant.
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“Restricted until the end of June”
“In Yutz, the market is a regulars market. We sometimes accept passenger traders in the summer. But for the time being, we are still on restriction until the end of June, “replied Bruno Sapin.
Last Saturday, the National Federation of Markets published a press release via its website urging the public authorities to intervene. “To date, following the decisions of certain mayors and prefects, many of our professionals, following the application of completely random criteria, are excluded from the markets in which they usually exercise […] It is no longer an economic safeguard for their businesses, it is a question of survival. By denying them access to the markets, hundreds of families will find themselves in irreversible precariousness. “It is not an easy job, we are already very dependent on the weather. We, itinerant traders, have become the fifth wheel of the cart. Everyone has given up, ”says Soraya.
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