As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about protestors outside a French supermarket, a judge in Versailles has overturned the requirement that health passports be presented as a condition for entry into retail businesses in the department of Yvelines.
Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | After just two days of enforcement, the prefectural decree from August 19, which made it compulsory | |
| 00:05 | to use a “health passport” at large shopping centers in the Yvelines department, was suspended | |
| 00:09 | by the Versailles administrative court. “The contentious order restricts access in a broad manner, | |
| 00:15 | and does not provide conditions guaranteeing people’s access to essential goods and services.” | |
| 00:21 | Throughout Yvelines 14 shopping centers with more than | |
| 00:24 | twenty thousand square meters were affected. The decree had been poorly greeted | |
| 00:27 | by retail professionals. At the Westfield Velizy 2 shopping center, | |
| 00:31 | beginning two days ago, 17 security agents were hired to guard the twelve entrance doors, | |
| 00:35 | with an estimated budget of 130,000 Euros for the month of August. | |
| 00:40 | I have registered a 25% drop in activity. A 25% drop in customer flow, that’s huge. | |
| 00:46 | We’re really fragile, and the shopkeepers are already suffering after a year and a half of crisis. | |
| 00:51 | We have the advantage of being a very large shopping center with air circulation, CO2 sensors, | |
| 00:55 | security agents, traffic direction and masks. | |
| 00:58 | Our Parisian neighbors have taken note that the Yvelines prefecture has passed this judgment. | |
| 01:04 | The health passport will no longer be required in shopping centers until further notice. | |
| 01:08 | However, it is considering whether to refer the matter to the council of state. |
Hat tip: JohnM, in the comments.
Westfield an Australian company was owned by Frank Lowy he sold out a few years ago but still Australian listed company. We have Westfield shopping centres here.