Closed during the health crisis, the Louvre reopened its doors to a restricted audience on Monday. After three months of closure, the famous museum must do without the foreign tourists who usually represent 75% of its visitors. Nearly 200 tour guides organized a flash mob to denounce their precarious working conditions since the start of the health crisis.
The face hidden by a mask crossed out with a blue cross symbolizing their incapacity to work, they asked for an extension of their rights with the installation of a white year. "Our main clientele are Americans, who are totally disaster victims at the moment, we know, and therefore we have no prospect of a job," Bruno de Baecque, tour guide, told AFP. If autumn arrives with a little work, we know that it will be very low, and therefore by then, our unemployment benefits will melt, and for some, including me, we are already at the end of entitlement. "