Marseille: Toursky theater positioned in receivership

The judicial courtroom of Marseille confirmed this request for authorized compensation made originally of the week by the board of administrators of the cultural useful resource co-founded by Richard Martin, who died in October 2023, defined Geneviève Maillet, the lawyer, to AFP of the group that manages the Toursky theater.

“This restoration is a breath of recent air as a result of it permits money owed to be frozen and salaries to be paid for the month of August,” stated the lawyer of a number of the employees, Elisabeth Audouard , to AFP as properly.

The process makes it attainable to activate the wage assure insurance coverage (AGS) mechanism in order that employees receives a commission.

Employees are accusing town of left-wing mayor Benoît Payan of being chargeable for the theater’s monetary issues after failing to pay the annual subsidy of round 950,000 euros, as first revealed by the native information web site Marsactu.

Mr. Martin and the Toursky administration have been at odds at metropolis corridor lately relating to the cost of a municipal subsidy – equal to “65%-70% of the theater’s working finances”. in response to Ms. Audouard – but in addition the residential settlement of the corporate, which lives in a municipal constructing.

Marseille’s administrative courtroom additionally dominated in favor of the Metropolis, which sees itself because the proprietor of the partitions of the historic theater, by rejecting on July 15 a request from the affiliation that managed the place saying to they’re certain by an extended lease since 1970. which might be equal to a deed of possession.

“The employees are on the finish of their lives: they imagine that town has been speaking twice for months and that the preservation of this place just isn’t a precedence,” stated Ms. Audouard.

Along with the battle over residing within the constructing, “if town didn’t vote for the subsidy, it’s as a result of the theater is in deficit”, defined town’s vp for tradition, Jean – Mark Coppola.

He guarantees a brand new reconciliation assembly quickly with the employees’ representatives about their state of affairs which town says is “delicate”.

Established for greater than 50 years within the coronary heart of the third arrondissement of Marseille, one of many poorest areas in Europe, the Toursky theater, which has the biggest room with round 700 seats, hosts round fifty exhibits per yr, together with creations.

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