“After seven nightmarish months, it’s a huge relief!
», Exults Jérôme Callais, president of the Cultural Association of Booksellers of Paris.
Exhausted by the battle which until then pitted it against the Paris police headquarters, the profession learned with jubilation that it would ultimately not be torn from the arms of the Seine.
“
Noting that no consensual and reassuring solution could be identified (…),
the President of the Republic asked the Minister of the Interior and the Prefect of Police that all book sellers be preserved
», declared the Élysée.
A welcome sentence, when these illustrious “merchants of spirit” knew they were threatened.
In view of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which will take place on the Seine on July 26, 170 booksellers - out of the approximately 220 in the capital - were ordered to pack up for reasons of security and visibility.
And to accept the dismantling of their boxes for an indefinite period...
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