(ANSA) - PARIS, MARCH 12 - With the occupation of two new theaters, the Théâtre du Nord in Lille (northern France) and the Théâtre de l'Union, in Limoges (southwest), the number of sites occupied since last year has risen to 10 week by a movement that has protested against the closure of places of culture for over 4 months now.
In Lille, the new director of the Théâtre du Nord, David Bobée, gave his "full support" to the mobilization, alongside the deputy mayor and councilor for culture of the municipality, Marie-PierreBresson.
The movement was joined by students from the local School of Dramatic Art (Ecole du Nord).
About twenty people entered the theater yesterday, without any tension, indeed well received by the director, all workers of the show business.
Fifteen of them stayed the night too.
The occupation will last at least until Sunday evening: "we are unable to carry out our activities", they complain in a document.
They are asking for "clear prospects for the reopening of cultural and social life places", "an immediate commitment on the extension of the 'white year' for all the precarious performers and its expansion to all female and precarious workers".
The white year ", announced last May by the president Emmanuel Macron, corresponds to the extension of the indemnity rights for the periods not worked until August 31, 2021.
In Limoges, as in the other theaters occupied for days by a movement that is spreading wildly. 'oil in France, lerivendicazioni are similar. With the addition of the request to "surrender to the reform of layoffs", considered "deadly" from show business employees.
to kick off the chain of protests was, lasettimana last, the occupation of the Odeon theater in Paris, then the scene of the Hills, two of the most popular dellacapitale. He then added the Strasbourg national Theater, the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes and the Théâtre de la Cité in Toulouse.
Similar actions are underway in Niort, Pau, Châteauroux and esançon. Wednesday, the ministre de la Culture Roselyne Bachelotha criticized these occupations, calling them "useless" and "dangerous". Yesterday, the government unlocked an additional 20 million
euros in support of the world of culture.
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