“
We have no visibility
”.
Roselyne Bachelot admitted it at RTL's microphone, while cultural establishments remain closed until further notice.
She specifies that the absence of data on the risk of transmission of the virus within cultural places is slowing their reopening.
“
We lack objective scientific evidence
,” she explains.
It is suffering, I know the sacrifices that this represents
. ”
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Government spokesman Gabriel Attal confirmed on Friday January 1 that theaters, cinemas, etc.
could not reopen on January 7, the date scheduled for the next point on sanitary conditions.
“
At this stage, it seems very unlikely
” that theaters, cultural venues, theaters and cinemas “
can reopen
” on January 7 due to the level of Covid-19 contamination, he had already warned Wednesday, December 30.
Cultural professionals "
are in permanent contact with Minister Roselyne Bachelot, who works with them, who exchanges with them to give them as much visibility as possible,
" added the government spokesperson.
Closed since the re-containment at the end of October, cinemas, theaters and performance halls were set to reopen on December 15 but had seen their hopes dashed when the executive announced that they would have to remain closed again until at least January 7.
Priority museums
"
There has never been a commitment to reopen
", recalled the minister on RTL.
The deadline of January 7 was indeed presented from the outset as a date of review and not of reopening.
On RTL, Roselyne Bachelot, however, defines an order of priorities at the time of the reopening.
"
Museums could be the first structures to reopen
", specified the Minister of Culture, adding that "
the reopening of museums, artistic and cultural education are priorities
".
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The Minister of Culture also reiterated her mistrust of the logic of "
stop-and-go
", which would consist in reopening and then closing cultural places as the health situation evolves.
"
Reopen on December 15, with all the difficulties (...) of ticketing, repackaging of rooms, rehearsals to possibly close them on January 2, 3 or 7 ... I believe that culture would have been murdered if we had done that,
”she said in December on RMC and BFMTV.
"
What I want is that we can reopen for good,
" she reaffirms on RTL.