Promised sworn, even if it sounds like it, “There is no back-pedaling”. Simply a will “To avoid the closure of leisure centers”. Lauriano Azinheirinha, director general of services for the city of Nice, assured this Saturday morning, facing the camera on BFM, the after-sales service for the latest announcements from the mayor Les Républicains (ex-LR) of the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes, Christian Estrosi.
While parliamentarians are fretting over the adoption of the health pass, Christian Estrosi had decided to take the initiative and condition, from Wednesday July 28, the access of children and adolescents in his city to leisure centers in “A PCR test of less than 48 hours” or to “A vaccination certificate for over 12s”, Nice Matin said this Friday. According to the elected representative on the right, it was “to secure” children and “Reassure as much as possible” parents facing “An increase in cases of covid in leisure and reception centers”.
Uproar in families but also among lawyers. In the evening, a lawyer at the Nice Bar, Maître Xavier Frutton, sent a letter to the Prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, in which he explains that this decision is a sovereign competence and that it cannot be taken by a mayor. , indicate our colleagues from France blue Nice.
Saturday morning, Christian Estrosi announced on Twitter a “change of course”. Finally, it will not impose a health pass on young people hosted by leisure centers. The city will be content to offer and even to “recommend” saliva tests, in order to “To avoid an increased circulation of the virus and the total closure of the centers which would penalize parents and children”.
The mayor of Nice also clarified that “The facilitators and staff who are not vaccinated must take a test to ensure the best possible protection”. While until now, leisure centers have closed from three cases of Covid-19, he wants them to cease their activity from the first case detected.
