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Without Parliament or Christmas market, the great depression of Strasbourg

2020-11-29T03:17:03.752Z


SURVEY - With the health crisis, the Alsatian capital, which usually experiences a high number of tourists in December, suffered an economic tsunami. To survive, artisans and traders will try to reinvent themselves.


Strasbourg

At the end of November, Strasbourg is struggling to come out of the lethargy into which the second confinement plunged it.

As soon as night falls, the historic city center is almost empty.

Only the spire of the cathedral, lit from the inside, stands out above the roofs.

In addition to the health crisis that is raging throughout France and across the world, this year for the Alsatian capital, the closure of the European Parliament since February.

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And, for the first time since the end of the war, the cancellation of the Strasbourg Christmas market, the oldest in Europe.

Even the Islamist attack that plunged the city into mourning two years ago, killing five and injuring ten, had only resulted in a two-day hiatus.

The security system had been reinforced, but the event maintained.

Faced with this economic tsunami, the city will have to both reinvent itself as a “Christmas capital” and obtain the return of MEPs on the banks of the Ill.

In recent days, the city services

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Source: lefigaro

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