Dancing, jumping, resuming Aya Nakamura tubes at the top of your lungs or “getting ambianced” on techno: everywhere in France, we could see from Lyon to Paris, these scenes of classic celebrities from the festival of the music. But these rallies, where social distancing, barrier gestures and masks fell, shocked at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is still raging in France. No remorse on the part of the young people who celebrated last night, because it was authorized.
"Why is listening to music a crime?" "
"We spent more than two months having no social interaction, how did you want it to go?" It was a real relief, a real festive moment, ”says Clara, 21, who partied on the Quai de Valmy in Paris. "It was outdoors, it didn't last long. In addition, we are the generation least affected by the virus, ”said the young woman, however, well aware of having taken a risk.
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“For the rally, I agree that it was too much. But frankly why is listening to music a crime? We are not terrorists either "protests Lucas, 19, who participated in a techno party on a street in Lyon. Others like Romeo, 23, wanted to party this Sunday evening. "I was on my way to the Canal Saint-Martin but I heard of the number of people present, and I turned back," explains this student. “I had a real motivation to find my friends whom I had not seen since confinement. We wanted to find each other but not at any cost ”.
"To party is to forget, perhaps, this uncertain future"
“We ended up listening to electro with 60 people in the Parc de Vincennes, people didn't have masks but we weren't stuck together at all. The Park was really airy, it was very cool, ”confides this nightclub lover. "Faced with doubts and uncertainties, or a potential second wave, the need to party is urgent but I would not do anything" repeats Romeo.
For the first deputy mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire, the music festival in the capital "went pretty well", apart from "some black spots in terms of crowd, rather in connection with electro type concerts". But the elected confirms it: "We feel in the Parisian youth a certain weariness on the barrier gestures, it will be necessary to reflect with the ministry on what we can do on this subject", notes the elected Parisian who pleads in particular for reinforced pedagogy.
So too carefree this youth? This is not the opinion of the sociologist Olivier Galland, author of a "Sociology of youth (Armand Collin). "If they were relatively spared from the health crisis, they will be the first to be affected by the economic crisis and to party is to forget, perhaps, this uncertain future," says the researcher.
“Carelessness, you really have to put it into perspective. These young people experienced a whole different world. They are more pragmatic, they like to take advantage of this period of freedom during which they are not fully engaged in a profession where a family but they are aware of the consequences of their actions, "adds the sociologist. “If the young people got together, it was because they needed it. We need to express our freedom, our joie de vivre and the pleasure of being together, which is very understandable. "
"A drive explosion"
Michael Stora, psychologist, even sees in this celebration of unconfined music a mechanism close to decompensation. "We have all lived in a kind of bipolarity: just after the melancholy, there is often a manic phase, a phase of excitement, with a feeling of excessive freedom, up to the pain that we have endured", analyzes the Parisian psychologist. "In this phase, everything that is of the order of the law no longer has any meaning, especially among young people, among whom the festive impulse is stronger," he adds.
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For the therapist, there was a desire to blow up the barriers, a drive explosion ”. "The social link and the tactile link have become a new health emergency for young people, touch is more empathetic than visual, what happened is ultimately completely normal" for this specialist, who concludes: "touching yourself is revive.