The televisions of many fast-food restaurants are connected to the 24-hour news channels in the city center of Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), when the President of the Republic speaks this Thursday evening.
Dreaded by many for the past twenty-four hours, the return of confinement, from Thursday midnight and until December 1, is confirmed at 8:11 p.m.
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"Pffff", simultaneously sigh several customers of this kebab on rue du Moutier, the city's shopping artery.
“Isolation, telling yourself that you will no longer be able to see your friends, your family, it's hard, laments Habib, 26 years old.
At our age, we want to go out… ”
His concern is also professional.
Salesman in a department store in the rue de Rivoli, in Paris, he risks being placed on short-time work again, as in the spring.
“Financially, it's a problematic year because I'm paid on commission,” he continues.
My base salary is ridiculous.
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"Health comes first"
Near the town hall, the inhabitants are becoming increasingly rare a few minutes from the curfew in force.
We meet many young adults - logical, in one of the cities with the lowest average age in France (43.4% of its population is under 30, according to INSEE).
“Containment, deconfinement, curfew, re-containment… Frankly, 2020, it stinks!
»Laughs Hamza, 24, currently in the administration and also disgusted to be at home for several weeks.
She admits: “We were able to enjoy a few months, but now it's over.
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Jobseeker three months, Boubacar, graphic designer of 31 years, came specially listen to the speech in a autrefast Food
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to 20 hours.
“It will be very complicated in the next few months, he fears.
But nothing to do.
Health comes first.
If we have to shut ourselves up, we have no choice.
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Macron does not inspire confidence
With a hurry, Jalila, 33, hurries home before 9 p.m.
She has just read Emmanuel Macron's ads on his smartphone.
And criticism: “It's too vague.
One day we are told to behave like this, the next day like that.
With him, I no longer have confidence. "
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Reconfinement, she "does not believe" in its effectiveness.
“When we feel manipulated, we no longer listen to what we are told, even if it is good for us.
During confinement, I was in the 18th century in Paris, and people ended up coming out.
There, for example, we tell students and high school students that we close everything, but it will be even worse: they will continue to be outside, without a framework, and the virus will spread even more.
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