“Close at 10 pm?
But this is the disaster!
Pascal, room manager at “Clichy's Tavern”, a Parisian bar well known to night owls from the Pigalle district (IXth district) to stay open until 5 am every night, accuses the blow.
He already knows that, like the 15 employees of the establishment, he will return to the partial unemployment box at the beginning of next week.
“It's simple, at night it's 75% of our turnover.
The owner will have no choice but to close!
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Same surprise and incomprehension for Cédric, 37, seated this Wednesday evening on the terrace with his colleague Aldo in front of two pints and a board of cold cuts and cheese.
"Does the virus stop circulating at 10 pm maybe?"
I don't understand the logic at all.
He who comes here once a week after work "to decompress with colleagues" does not see why he "represents a danger".
“I wear the mask.
I take care for my parents who are in poor health, but there, on the terrace of a bar, it's nonsense.
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"Even doing that, it's too late"
The owner of the “Harp”, an Irish pub located a hundred meters further on Boulevard de Clichy, shares this mistrust while fearing the emergence of an even more devastating effect.
“What will happen is that many bars will go underground, draw their curtains after the authorized time to welcome only regulars who, suddenly, will no longer respect anything”, worries Mathieu.
Marine, Anouk, Eugenie and Tsylée fear a new exodus of young people from the capital.
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A little further on, on Boulevard de Clichy, opinions are more divided among this group of girlfriends sipping beers and cocktails on the terrace of the “Le Boucan” bar.
If Tsylée, 29, recently fired from a travel agency, "agrees with all the measures that will prevent a re-containment", Marine, 26, is much more pessimistic.
“Objectively, I think that even doing that, it's too late.
We are all confronted with the virus in the same way and at the same time.
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None of them understand why regions are now treated differently.
“It doesn't make sense because if we can't do anything more in Paris, many will go to the regions to party or be quieter,” believes Eugenie, 23.
If I can go back to my parents and take the risk of infecting my loved ones, it will be pointless to close the bars in Paris or Marseille!
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