VIDEO – In less than a month of the event still attracted 2.5 million people in 2015, and a few weeks after the attack in Nice, the city mayor, Martine Aubry, and the Northern prefect Michel Lalande, say “impossible” to ensure maximum security.
“it’s a tear that make that decision. “Deeply moved, Martine Aubry announced Friday morning its decision to cancel for safety reasons, the 2016 edition the fair of Lille. This was to be held in less than a month: on 3 and 4 September. “We have really done everything, ensured the socialist mayor at a press conference held jointly with the prefecture, but there are risks that we fail to reduce.” According to the socialist elected, safety means allocated for the event had been revised upward this year, but after the attack of Nice, the risk appeared to him too much and poses a “moral responsibility problem.” Traders nevertheless have the right to sell off inside their premises. And the funfair as well as the half marathon will be maintained.
“The authorities did not they could better predict the risk?”
in the northerner city decision sounded like a thunderclap. The announcement came short of taking hoteliers, used to display full for three nights. “We are particularly surprised that we have not been involved,” responds Thierry Grégoire. Shocked, the president of the Union of crafts and hospitality industries Hauts de France does not hide his incomprehension. “Zero risk does not exist. We will never be safe from a terrorist threat, said the hotelier. This brings a dramatic image of the city “Thierry Grégoire asks.” The authorities have not they been able to anticipate the risk? After all, France is not in a state of emergency since yesterday. “
” I’d rather face the wrath of those who lose a reference, perhaps money than confronting anger of those who lose a child, “retorted the North prefect Michel Lalande.
The Lille Braderie is the pride of the inhabitants of the region. The 2015 edition was held two and a half million bargain hunters. Some 10,000 professional sellers including 300 antique dealers display their treasures on 100 km of sidewalks. On the weekend, 500 tonnes of mussels and 30 tonnes of chips are eaten. The choice of the authorities precisely based on the peculiar character of the first flea market in Europe. “The decision to suspend is not taken because the sell is a victim of its history, but because of its hyperurbain model with its crowded streets,” said the Prefect.
“The trucks that arrive several days before a bomb can contain or Kalashnikovs, the volume of goods and the crowd would be impossible to control,” said his side Martine Aubry. “Make the sell with snipers on the rooftops, CRS at every street corner, helicopters and drones that run everywhere, to me, this is not the spirit of the sell-off,” said the mayor.
Martine Aubry ensures already thinking to 2017 a new formula that would take better account of security issues. “A focus group will be created in town and with Lille.” The same question arises for many hexagonal events. After the attack in Nice, despite the reinforcements announced by the Interior Minister, several municipalities have canceled their favorite festivities because of the terrorist threat.
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