Comedians, musicians, artists, dancers, cinema and museum managers… Everyone in the arts and entertainment industry was mobilized all over France to denounce the postponement of the opening of cultural venues, which were initially due to reopen this Tuesday, December 15 .
In Paris, and at the call of the CGT-spectacle, they were several hundred gathered on the Place de la Bastille to shout their anger and their dismay.
“Open theaters”, “Open cinemas”, “Deconfining culture!
Some chanted from the steps of the Opera Bastille.
Others held up signs that read “Culture, essential food” or “I am a non-essential”.
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" I do not understand what is happening.
Why could we not reopen our theaters, our cinemas or our museums, where the sanitary protocol is concrete, and at the same time leave all the shops open ”, asks Angélique, a young actress who has not worked for months. .
“We are dying, warns the comedian and actor Christophe Alévêque.
We can't get out of it.
The Prime Minister tells us "the priority is your health", but he is ruining it for us!
I have lots of friends who are depressed, who no longer sleep, who take medication.
Some even think of doing something stupid… We are doing very, very badly!
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