Banners on the trucks, snail operation on the A4 and the A31, horns all the way … This Wednesday, the angry fairgrounds were out in Moselle-Nord. Like everywhere in France elsewhere. “We are fifty trucks from Alsace, Saint-Avold, Nancy, others have joined us in Metz,” says one of the protesters met on avenue Foch, in Thionville.
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Deadline “too close”
Indeed, their coming to Thionville had a twofold interest. On the one hand, it was the possibility for the snail operation of the A31 to turn around and leave towards Metz. On the other hand, it was also the occasion of a meeting between a delegation of representatives of the fairgrounds and the mayor of Thionville, Pierre Cuny. The goal: to decide on the organization of the spring funfair on the Place de la Liberté in early June.
On the municipality side, the answer is clear, the deadline is “too close for the party to be held in good conditions.” Given the sanitary conditions, it seems preferable to concentrate on vaccination, ”underlines the mayor’s office. “We proposed to postpone the funfair to the month of July, but this is not compatible with the fairground calendar. We hear their need to find an activity and we want to assure them of our support, a letter for the Federation of fairgrounds of France will be prepared in this regard. A solution is being studied so that the fall festival can be brought forward a few days and last longer. “
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Six months without working
Note that a first meeting had taken place on Tuesday and the municipality had already made known its decision. The delegation nevertheless withdrew in the hope of “finding common ground in future meetings.” ”
For Xavier Saguet, spokesperson and founding member of the Federation of fairgrounds of France, necessarily, the decision is not the one hoped for. “Of course, we would have preferred to have been told that the party would be held from June 9 to 16. The town hall is ready to welcome us from the 21st and we understand its good intention, but our calendar already commits us elsewhere. According to the decree published last night, the fairgrounds could reopen on June 9 with a stricter protocol than elsewhere and constraints for which we were not consulted. In fact, we can see that the reopening will not take place. And we will not be working for six months. So what are the solutions while waiting for the municipalities to authorize us to settle? Knowing that Walygator and its attractions will resume on June 16. If the state has banned fairgrounds by decree, that it obliges them to be
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