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Covid-19: forced to stop, circuses worried about their future

2020-12-28T18:59:16.740Z


STORY - While waiting for the recovery, they repair their equipment and call for help from the government.


While the end of year holiday season is usually a good time for circuses, with a large number of performances throughout France, they are all at a standstill at the end of 2020. Covid obliges.

A fact that these passionate artists, used to surpassing themselves and roaming from city to city, live very badly.

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While waiting for the authorization of the public authorities to resume their activity, they are busy as best they can, in their rear base.

These are large areas outside the cities where their caravans, equipment and animals rest.

“I stay calm in“ Pinderland ”, near Melun, in Perthes-en-Gatinais, with my sister and my father,

explains Frédéric Edelstein, famous animal tamer and director of the Pinder circus.

This is the site of our future amusement park on the circus, a vast area of ​​130 hectares, where we settle when we are not on tour.

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Source: lefigaro

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