Life for everyone at home: from the Saint-Pierre church in Besançon to a retirement home in the Loire, echoes of a France under cover on Tuesday, on the 29th day of confinement.
Life for everyone at home: from the Saint-Pierre church in Besançon to a retirement home in the Loire, echoes of a France under cover on Tuesday, on the 29th day of confinement.
. Virtual ticket office
Postponed indefinitely, the final of the French Football Cup between PSG and Saint-Etienne, which was to be played at the Stade de France on April 25, has already attracted nearly 58,000 spectators … virtual.
On the initiative of the Stéphane association ASSE Coeur Vert, 80,000 fictitious seats – the capacity of the Ile-de-France stadium – were sold at 1 euro each in order to raise 80,000 euros “for the community of researchers at the Saint-Etienne University Hospital” .
An operation in which the Stade de France consortium participated by purchasing 10,000 tickets from the association chaired by former Stéphane player Dominique Rocheteau.
. Plexiglass
For the past week, in Roche-la-Molière (Loire), the 92 residents of the Résidence du Parc have been able to break their isolation by talking to one of their loved ones behind a plexiglass window.
“This improvised parlor is very successful. It allows the reception of a new visitor every half hour, with disinfection after each visit,” Gilbert Mounier, director of this establishment for the elderly, told AFP.
“The place is a sound box, which allows, even without a hygienic phone, to get along on both sides of the transparent separation through which we can show photos or take”, says Mr. Mounier .
. “Get out covered”
His video “Come out covered” garnered thousands of views on social networks: Belgian artist Maxime Matthys walked near his home in Rennes, his body covered up to his head with more than 150 certificates of derogatory displacement dated and signed.
“The police arrested me, I did not receive a fine, but they destroyed my costume,” he told AFP.
At Mediapart, the young artist says he wanted to “create a form of metaphor for current public health policy”. “The confinement and the certificates are the consequence of the shortage of masks, the absence of massive screening, the lack of resuscitation beds and the disregard of alerts by the authorities,” he said, without however question this confinement which “saves lives”.
. Intense blue
In Besançon, from nightfall and until 11 p.m., the Fine Arts museum and the bell tower of the Saint-Pierre church – two flagship buildings of the city – illuminate with an intense blue light. The mayor, Jean-Louis Fousseret (LREM), wishes to “support and welcome the investment of people on the front line against the Covid-19”.
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