First meeting with the public, first controversy.
Elected Miss France 2021 on December 19, in a Puy-du-Fou empty of spectators, Amandine Petit started her newly elected marathon.
In addition to the interviews, Miss Normandy was finally able to meet the French this Saturday, during a signing session in a shopping center in Moselle, in Farébersviller.
Except that, in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, with a resumption in particular in the Grand Est, this event which brought together several hundred people is cringe, especially on the elected side.
Because the images published by several Internet users clearly show that, despite the masks, physical distancing was not there.
đź”´ Miss France signing in a shopping center in Moselle this afternoon!
A misunderstanding when cinemas, theaters, performance halls, leisure parks, restaurants or nightclubs are closed.
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“I don't think there was a need for prefectural authorization because the shopping center only had to respect the reception gauge over its entire surface.
On the legality, there is not much to complain about, but there is a question of common sense which arises ”, estimates Christophe Arend, LREM deputy of the district where the shopping center is located, surprised by the behavior of such an event on the first day of the reinforced and advanced curfew at 6 p.m. in the department.
"I am sad for this Miss France who must undergo this controversy but at the level of the organizers, we must anticipate.
We tell the cultural professions that have followed a strict protocol, that they cannot work, and there we have a crowd, it is difficult to find consistency, ”he believes.
"Unconsciousness"
The local opposition is also outraged by the holding of such an event.
“Inadmissible, I think Miss France could have started with a spared department!
As the future director of nursing home, she may have planned to stay there to help us following this unconsciousness?
"Rebelled, Caroline Fiat, deputy La France insoumise, on her Facebook account.
And annoyed messages from traders and restaurateurs, some forced to close, have continued to flourish in recent hours.
On the side of the shopping center, it is ensured that the sanitary instructions were followed to the letter, even if the director concedes to our colleagues of "Lorraine Actu" that the distancing "was not respected".
In addition, he says that there was Saturday "less crowds than a Christmas weekend" and that Miss France 2021 and her fans were systematically separated by a window.
Same story for Christian Morel, communications director of the “Républicain Lorrain”, co-organizer of the event.
“What about rush hour in the metro, in train stations or in public transport?
The organizers provided security.
A little happiness in such an anxiety-provoking period can also be good, ”he responded on Facebook.