2023-07-27 22:17:20
Par Fanny Savard
Posted yesterday at 22:11, Updated yesterday at 22:17
A bookseller’s stand near Notre-Dame. ANDBZ/ABACA
REPORTAGE – The town hall of Paris proposes to relocate the booksellers and their green boxes during the Games for questions of visibility and security, provoking the fury of certain professionals.
The booksellers installed on the banks of the Seine will not be celebrating the Olympics. The town hall of Paris announced to them during a meeting on July 10 that their green boxes will have to be moved for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, which must take place on the river. They would prevent the public from seeing the festivities properly from the quays and would pose security problems. The police headquarters is even formal: it is «indispensable» let their stalls be dismantled.
Francis Robert, bookseller who has been officiating on the Quai des Grands-Augustins since 1980, is not losing his temper. “We have been on the quays since Henri IV and we are one of the monuments of Paris. We are not going to move Notre-Dame, so why should we leave?“, he pretends to wonder. His colleague Gabriel de Freitas, installed opposite the Institut de France shares his resentment. “It’s totally stupid since they want to hold an opening ceremony on the banks of the Seine, but Paris…
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