It has been almost a year, to the day, since confinement was announced, resulting in the closure of bars, restaurants and cultural places.
The collective "We will all toast" decided to mark the occasion in Rennes.
For this anniversary, they distributed free coffee to passers-by.
"Today, we want to highlight the precariousness of our entire industry, both our companies, but also our suppliers," explains Pierre Clolus, owner of the restaurant "L'Ambassade" in Rennes.
So there, our suppliers offered us coffees and fruit juices because their stock is completely out of date.
It's a whole industry that is collapsing with us, ”he continues, denouncing the situation of a sector“ that is holding up with scotch at the moment ”.
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"It is time today that we reopen and that the man can have fun again", insists Geneviève, cook, present on the premises.
“I think it's a long time for everyone.
There are enough, we want to be able to find a little simple life.
Going to a restaurant, having a drink with friends, so yes, we can not wait to be able to rediscover these moments, ”abounds a passerby.
A few streets further on, intermittents occupy the Rennes Opera House.
They join a national movement to occupy cultural places to demand their reopening and, more broadly, the withdrawal of unemployment insurance.
“We will stay several days, several weeks, several months.
This government must hear us.
The minister talks to us, she seems to understand our problems but she does nothing, she can do nothing.
The Prime Minister does almost as much, “annoys Laurent Voiturin, actor, in front of the steps of the Opera.
