This Thursday, there were people at the Buttes-Chaumont park. Or rather outside the Buttes. The park is still closed as part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The inhabitants have therefore got into the habit of meeting around the garden for a drink or playing a game of badminton. Like Thierry, who brought his snowshoes to exchange some shuttlecocks with friends and who "adapts to the closure of the park" by settling "around the gates".
Same thing for Sally, who takes advantage of the “only resort” in the neighborhood to play pétanque. A welcoming place but too small, especially in the evening "where people come with their drinks to have an aperitif on the sidewalks" notes the young woman.
If the Parisians questioned deplore the too busy sidewalks, opinions diverge on the reopening of the capital's parks. Jean-Baptiste, 30, deplores "the lack of space" and pleads for a reopening of the Buttes-Chaumont "with the wearing of a mandatory mask". When Valentin, 28 years old "who returns from London with his deconfigured parks", pleads for the maintenance of "the closure". "We must play collectively" asserts the young man.
