Covid-19: which shopping centers have been closed in your city since this weekend?

In the 23 departments under surveillance, "

large shopping centers or large commercial areas of more than 10,000 m2 will be closed as of Friday evening,

" Prime Minister Jean Castex announced during his speech on Thursday.

Shopping centers of more than 20,000 square meters had already had to close their doors at the end of January.

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In all, 136 additional shopping centers are now due to close their doors as of Saturday, March 6, bringing the total to 536, according to the National Council of Shopping Centers (CNCC).

In addition to shopping centers, large independent DIY, gardening or furniture stores, such as Castorama, Leroy Merlin, Truffaut, Brico Dépôt, Ikea or even Decathlon are also affected by the new closure obligations.

The "

click & collect

" will not be authorized for businesses closed in shopping centers.

Customers who have already placed an order in one of these stores will however be able to pick it up this Saturday.

Here is the list of establishments which must close their doors in Paris, Lyon, Lille and Marseille.

Paris, Lyon, Lille and Marseille: the list of closed shopping centers

In

Paris

, the police headquarters unveiled on Twitter the list of nine department stores and shopping centers affected by this new forced closure as of this Saturday, March 6.

In the case of shopping centers, only non-food businesses are closed.

The Carrousel du Louvre (1st arrondissement), the Galerie commercial de la Gare Saint-Lazare (8th arrondissement), the Galerie commercial Elysées La Boétie (8th arrondissement) and the Passage du Havre (9th arrondissement) must close.

In the 17th arrondissement, the Fnac des Ternes store and the Palais des Congrès shops are concerned.

In the 13th arrondissement of the capital, the Oslo shopping center and the Masséna shopping center are also concerned.

Finally, the Printemps Nation store in the 20th arrondissement, which escaped the latest restrictions, must now close.

These establishments join the list of other shopping centers and department stores already closed since the beginning of February, namely: the Forum des Halles (1st arrondissement), the BHV Marais (4th arrondissement), Le Bon Marché (7th arrondissement), the Galeries Lafayette ( 9th arrondissement), Printemps Haussmann (9th arrondissement), Italie 2 (13th arrondissement), the Montparnasse shopping center (14th arrondissement), the Panoramik and Magnetik buildings of the Beaugrenelle center (15th arrondissement) and Vill'up (19th arrondissement).

In the Ile-de-France region, the Marque Avenue Corbeil-Essonnes (91), Quai des Marques-Franconville (95) and Marques Avenue L'Île-Saint-Denis (93) centers also had to close their doors.

The Marques Avenue Aubergenville center (78) remains open, being open to the sky.

In the Yvelines, several shopping centers of more than 10,000 square meters are now required to close, namely: Carrefour Sartrouville - Le Plateau, Porte de Normandie Buchelay, Carrefour Chambourcy, Les Vergers de la Plaine - Chambourcy, Coignières, La Maison Villacoublay as well as L'usine mode and Maisons Vélizy.

In

Lyon

, the prefecture has also announced a reduction in the tonnage to 10,000m2.

During a press conference, the authorities specified that “

approximately 25 shopping centers

” would be concerned in the Rhône department and the metropolis of Lyon.

The La Part-Dieu and Confluence shopping centers are already affected by closure measures: only essential shops are open there.

Following the new announcements, Domaine Caladois, near Villefranche-sur-Saône, had to close its doors, with the exception of a few essential stores.

A precise list of centers affected by the restrictions in the department has been published by the prefecture.

Several centers have been affected by the closure since Friday March 5 at midnight: the CC Carrefour de Vénissieux, the Galerie Marchande Géant Casino in Villefranche, the Grezdis Leclerc in Grezieu la Varenne, the Castorama and the Decathlon in Bron as well as the Castorama in Dardilly.

In Lille

, the prefecture published its decree on Friday, which confirms that all shopping centers of more than 10,000 square meters will be closed.

Two centers are affected by this new gauge: the Tanners (which will keep its Monoprix open) and the Printemps de la rue Nationale.

Two other shopping centers had already partially closed their doors: Lillenium (except the Leclerc hypermarket and the pharmacy) and Euralille, where only the Burger King (in delivery), the Carrefour and the pharmacy will remain open.

In Marseille,

the prefecture published a decree on Friday evening also specifying that in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, “

sales stores and shopping centers, comprising one or more buildings whose cumulative useful commercial area is greater than or equal to ten thousand square meters, cannot accommodate the public

”.

Shopping centers of this size are Bonneveine, Les Docks Village and Caillols.

However, residents walking the streets of Marseille can see that Bonneveine and Les Docks Village (14,000 square meters) remained open this Saturday.

“

Many employees did not come this morning, because we had initially been told that the gauge was going to be at 10,000 square meters.

However, it was finally set at 15,000

”, explains to

Figaro

an employee of the Docks Village.

Contacted, the prefecture maintains for its part the national obligation to close for establishments of more than 10,000 square meters and evokes for the time being "

a little moment of hesitation, as is sometimes the case between the announcement and the application of new restrictions

”.

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The shopping centers already closed in Marseille, with surfaces exceeding 20,000 square meters, are the Center Bourse, the Merlan, the Valentine Center, the Terrasses du Port, the Grand Littoral and Avant Cap.

Pharmacies, supermarkets or hypermarkets and take-out food outlets remain open there nonetheless.