The Trone Fair, Biggest Sports Fair in France, Wrapping Up Amidst Fights and Olympic Interruption

The churros, the tours, the machines to win stuffed toys on the lawn of Reuilly (Paris 12th), it’s almost over! The Trone Fair, the biggest sports fair in France, is packing up this Sunday.

Estelle, who came from Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) with her three children, enjoys the sun and duck fishing. “We didn’t go on vacation, and I looked at what we were able to do, and to see the kids having a blast, laughing out loud, it’s beautiful and just a joy.”

Fight videos, bad publicity

This year, the Trône fair was the opposite times of violence, with groups of young people who were fighting. “I looked a bit on the networks all week, apparently it was dangerous, there were fights, so I told myself we were going to go there around noon with the kids, but now I’m encouraged, “said the forty years. old, not far from the city police who keep watch.

At the ticket counter of the “Maximum”, a fun ride, Brad, lawn, admits that these fights “have not given good publicity” to the event. “With the tiktoks that were there, it was complicated, there were population movements, families could be scared and they didn’t want to come anymore. “

The Olympics will shorten the operating time

The weather in April was not good with the plains, except for a weekend of great weather and temperatures worthy of the month of June. Above all, they are punished by the Olympic Games : instead of lasting until the end of May and including May 1, May 8, Ascension, and sometimes Pentecost Monday, the Throne Feast had to be abandoned on those public holidays.

Of course, the Games must install a temporary military camp on the meadow of Reuilly, on which there are fairs at present. “It’s going to be very complicated this year,” Iain breathes. However, this lack is “lost, we can’t get it back”, confirms Iain, who still doesn’t know how he will reconcile this loss.

Most exhibitors won’t be able to set up shop anywhere else next month, at least not John. “I couldn’t find a party, because there are 300 people on the couch here, and at every other party, all our colleagues already have a place, so we can’t reach out and apply ourselves that way.”
They were not compensated by the stateThe fairs barely got a reimbursement from Paris city hall : -35% on the price of the place this year.