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Covid-19: nightclub managers exhausted after five months of closure

2020-07-14T16:05:08.131Z


In debt, some discotheque owners are unable to reimburse their creditors despite the monthly assistance from the solidarity fund.


"Tous pour la nuit", "Je suis Discothèque", "L'État nous kue": more than 200 professionals from the night world from all over France gathered on Sunday outside the Ministry of Solidarity and Health in Paris . Reunited thanks to a Facebook group launched at the end of the confinement by Claude Somarriba, singer of the group Collectif Métissé, they are demanding a reopening date for nightclubs and a financial support plan for their sector, in great difficulty since the beginning of the crisis sanitary.

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June 21 is usually a good day for Mike Ludwig, manager of Le Tremplin, an emblematic nightclub in the Rennes region. But this year, on the day when the Fête de la Musique should have taken place, he started a hunger strike "in order to warn of the catastrophe that the night world is going through . " Since March 8, no reveler has trod the Tremplin dance floor. With "more than 220,000 euros in debts due to fixed charges" , the monthly aid of 1,500 euros from the

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Source: lefigaro

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