At the top of the unmissable hill of the Château de Nice, with its striking panorama over the rooftops and the sea, Islem is active in the only small snack on the site.
It's not the big day crowd.
And we should not count on the weekend to do better ... “We are waiting, we do not know if the park will be closed.
But we won't open.
It's all completely stupid, ”she blurted out, between two beer orders.
The decision, announced this Monday, by the prefect to partially reconfine a large coastal strip in the Alpes-Maritimes because of the Covid-19 has forced it to adapt in fourth gear for its stocks of food and drinks.
“It's not lost, but we had to review the controls,” she said.
I am very disappointed with the lack of organization around this decision.
"
"We rented with a terrace"
A few tens of meters away, Camille, Xavier and their children have a quiet family picnic on a piece of lawn, while below, we can see many onlookers on the Promenade des Anglais.
A sweet holiday feeling.
The forties, originally from Paris, came to spend a week in the region.
“We waited until the last moment without ever being afraid to come.
When we learned that restrictions were going to be taken in Nice, we rented an apartment in Cannes with a terrace at the last minute, in case there was total confinement, ”they confide.
Start again or cancel?
Out of the question.
“We will be leaving on Saturday as planned.
And frankly, we have almost fewer restrictions than in Paris.
We were even very surprised to see that people in Cannes don't really wear masks and that we can drink aperitifs in the street… ”
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Here, partial confinement is far from unanimous.
The national sport for many locals is even finding a way to escape for the weekend.
The prefect indicated that people with a reservation, for a ski resort for example, could circulate.
The beautiful windfall.
"Me, I leave at two thirty from here, to Arles, assures Nicolas, a trader of old Nice.
I know many who are going to go to the Var.
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The "angry" man will be closed on Saturday and Sunday when he achieves 30 to 40% of his turnover on these days.
According to him, “all of this serves the metropolis and the local socio-economic fabric”.
An opinion shared by Christophe Pelloux, a lawyer from Nice who filed an appeal before the administrative court, against the decision to reconfine at the local level, on behalf of a real estate agent.
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“My client mainly visits in the evening and at weekends, he can no longer work,” he explains.
Bad surprise: his legal action which was to be examined this Friday morning was finally postponed "to a later date".
This Thursday at the end of the day, the prefectural decrees specifying the exact modalities of this unprecedented confinement in metropolitan France were still not published.