Containment: services that employ disabled people who are almost stationary

Yann Bucaille, the founder of Café Joyeux, did not wait for the announcement on March 16 of the closure of all bars and restaurants to lower the curtain on all his establishments! No, the boss of this social enterprise, which employs employees with a mental or cognitive handicap, closed its stores four days earlier, just after the first address to the nation of the President of the Republic. "It cost me to take this initiative," he explains, "especially since he had just opened an ephemeral bar, inaugurated by Emmanuel Macron, on the Champs-Élysées. It meant that these people are more fragile while we are demonstrating that they can work in an ordinary environment. I resolved to do so because we owe them great caution. ”

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But he really had no choice. In his speech on March 12, the Head of State had indeed recalled that “the virus can have very serious consequences, in particular for those of our compatriots

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