In Tours (Indre-et-Loire), as everywhere in France, small businesses are weakened by the confinement linked to the coronavirus epidemic. To support the resumption of activity, the mayor Christophe Bouchet (Radical movement) must have this Tuesday by his municipal council adopt an original recovery plan. The councilor wants to distribute 30,000 vouchers of 50 euros to the most vulnerable and employees who are on the front line during the crisis (caregivers, garbage collectors, cashiers, city officials ...).
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The “sparkle” plan - that's his name - has a “social, united and economic” vocation , explains Christophe Bouchet to Le Figaro . "We must provoke recovery," adds the former president of Olympique de Marseille, who will devote 1.5 million euros to his initiative. 20,000 vouchers will be distributed first, before a second burst of 10,000 vouchers when the restaurants are authorized to reopen. The vouchers can be spent in 1905 shops in the city: those who have
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