Will June 21 mark the end of the restrictions that we have been living for over a year?
While the masks fell on Thursday June 17, the curfew was repealed on Sunday June 20 throughout the country and concerts in bars and restaurants were authorized at the last minute by the Minister of Culture, it seems that the 2021 Music Festival will more or less resemble the editions before the pandemic.
Is this really the case?
Concerts in bars
According to the new health protocol put in place by the executive, “
mini-concerts
” can be held in bars and restaurants, in compliance with anti-Covid measures, namely the wearing of masks and the rules of distancing. If the terraces can be 100% occupied, the tables cannot exceed six people. Indoors, the applied gauge is 50%.
Larger events will take place in establishments open to the public (concert halls, party halls, etc.). They must respect a seated configuration, indoors as well as outdoors, according to a gauge set at 65% of seats. For more than 1000 people, the health pass will be required (vaccination, negative PCR of less than two days, certificate of immunity). The number of spectators will not be able to exceed 5000 and
"a reinforced management of flows, to control the respect of the gauges in the ERP and the respect of the measures of physical distancing"
, will be put in place by the organizers. Finally, the end of the curfew will allow you to enjoy the evening until the end of the night.
A special concert will be broadcast on the occasion of this 2021 edition, live on France 2 from Roland Garros and the Philippe-Chatrier court.
Forty artists will follow one another on this stage, staged for the first time, including Patrick Bruel, Clara Luciani, or even Benjamin Biolay.
In another style, Emmanuel Macron explained that he was renewing the appointment by organizing a Music Festival at the Elysee.
No street concert
Prime Minister Jean Castex for his part warned that wild concerts causing “
gatherings on the public highway
” will remain prohibited. In its protocol, the Ministry of Culture specifies that these are “
impromptu
concerts
by musicians, especially amateurs, on public roads
”. As for gatherings of more than ten people outside, they remain prohibited. Other locally decided rules may apply in some municipalities, while several municipalities, such as Strasbourg or Colmar, have simply canceled the planned events. Others plan to postpone or strengthen the measures put in place, in order to prevent any risk of an outbreak of epidemics.
The discotheques, for their part, will reopen from July 9, as announced by the Minister for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Alain Griset, after a meeting with professionals in the sector held on June 21. It will therefore not be possible to end this frenzied night on a dance floor crowded with young sweaty and drunk.
