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Coronavirus: in Mayenne, the fear of losing everything

2020-03-24T20:27:33.651Z


REPORTAGE - In this rural territory, confinement poses fears about the future of a fragile economic fabric and threatens the disappearance of artisans and local businesses…


Special envoy to Mayenne

At the time of confinement, the cows are lucky. They have kept their freedom in the green fields of the Mayenne bocage. Some farmers too, perched on their tractors to prepare for cultivation. We too often forget the virtues of small departmental, crossing villages that we imagine asleep rather than confined and landscapes of an unchanging France. After the twilight highway test with its endless warning signs and empty petrol pumps, straight out of a science fiction film, it's like a little makeover . We would almost forget the Covid-19 and ignore the difficulties caused by the current crisis in this rural area.

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The return to reality is made at the first stop, at the foot of the castle of Mayenne. Recluse behind the closed gate of her restaurant, the Carrot, posed by the river, Ingrid Strebinger welcomes us like a prisoner

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Source: lefigaro

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