Queues in front of supermarkets, crowds on the shelves, empty shelves ... The French rushed into food stores on Monday.
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While Emmanuel Macron must speak this Monday at 8 p.m. to announce potential additional containment measures, consumers have decided to anticipate.
Many people in Paris returned home with whole bags filled with cans (and toilet paper) and other food items to be stored. Around 6:30 p.m. in front of the Monoprix rue de Reuilly (12th arrondissement), the security guard filtered the entrances of customers forced to line up in a single file - without the safety distances of one meter being really respected. Inside, the shelves of pasta, eggs and condiments are empty.
A security guard filters the entrances to avoid the rush inside the supermarket. Laura Andrieu / Le Figaro
Inside a Monoprix supermarket in Paris, the shelves are empty. Laura Andrieu / Le Figaro
A few meters further, the Lidl was robbed. Meat, fresh, frozen products, pasta ... Most of the shelves are completely empty. " We were supplied this morning, when I arrived at 3:00 pm, there was nothing left, " said a dumbfounded employee. The store will receive new stocks Tuesday morning.
This Lidl in the 12th arrondissement of Paris has been completely robbed. Le Figaro
Several people also testify on social media. “ Since the end of the morning, the Monoprix store in Meudon has been regulating the entrances to avoid too many customers on the shelves. People are waiting on the sidewalk trying to keep their distance, "said a Parisian journalist on Twitter, when another user posted a video showing a compact crowd trying to enter an Auchan supermarket.
The other French cities are not spared from the phenomenon. In Nice, for example, a journalist says: " It is 3:23 pm, filtering and queuing, without any health precautions in front of a Carrefour ".
The Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume, again affirmed this Monday, on CNEWS, that there was no food shortage in France, insisting on the fact that there would be no problem of supply. He also called on the French to " behave responsibly " and not to " rush into the shelves ".
