Lacanau seaside, Might 17, 2020 (illustration) – UGO AMEZ / SIPA
- Summer season requires, outside gatherings are multiplying in France, regardless of the specter of Covid-19.
- A number of Web customers relaying photographs of crowds gathered within the open air, whether or not on the docks or on the seaside, are apprehensive a few resumption of the epidemic thanks to those occasions.
- 20 minutes takes inventory of the authenticity of photographs speculated to have been taken in Paris and Lacanau on the weekend of July 18.
Regardless of the greater than 500 kilometers that separate them, Paris (Ile-de-France) and Lacanau (Gironde) had been the scene of two comparable controversies, which occurred just a few days aside on social networks.
Images exhibiting respectively numerous individuals gathered on a pier and on a seaside have certainly aroused criticism from many Web customers, alarming at potential Covid-19 clusters – a priority removed from new within the face of this sort of outside gatherings.
“Welcome to Coronavirus Plage […] Yesterday night at Paris Plages ”, denounces a Fb put up posted on July 18, which exhibits a crowd gathered so far as the attention can see, all alongside the marina, primarily on the banks of the Seine, subsequent to some individuals on the desk, and for the overwhelming majority with out masks.
“When I see this photo on Lacanau beach in Gironde last Sunday, I am sickened by the stupidity of people !! It should come as no surprise that new homes are appearing, ”regretted for its half the Fb put up exhibiting a really dense crowd on a part of the Gironde seaside, and one other space with revered bodily distancing.
If the photograph taken in Paris is barely taken out of its context, the images of Lacanau are genuine and appropriately dated. We take inventory.
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Regardless of its success, the Fb put up on “Paris Plages” isn’t the primary to have relayed the picture, because it had been posted on Twitter from 9:30 pm the day earlier than, by an Web consumer calling out to the police headquarters: “Good night @prefpolice how can we tolerate this sort of occasion? Photograph taken on the Quai de Seine at Place du Châtelet simply now »
Good night @prefpolice how can we tolerate this sort of occasion? Photograph taken on the Quai de Seine at Place du Chatelet in the meanwhile #coronavirus # COVID__19 pic.twitter.com/NLMevlsbNP
– Wanda Saint-Paul (@WandaStPaul) July 17, 2020
Contacted by 20 minutes, Wanda Saint-Paul specifies having taken the photograph “at 9:22 p.m. on July 17” – as now we have been in a position to confirm on the info of the file – and explains what motivated her tweet: “It is not so much the world in itself which shocked me, but the inconsistencies in the sanitary measures that are taken, since in the southwest, for example, férias have been banned and bars forced to close earlier. “
The date of the taking pictures confirms that the occasion couldn’t be taken at Paris Plages because the summer season occasion didn’t begin till the following day, July 18.
Alternatively, the Georges Pompidou route, situated just a few steps from the Place du Châtelet, hosted that night “FridayX sur Seine”, a “giant LGBT aperitif open to everyone”, organized each weekend in spring and summer season. summer season, because the occasion web site signifies.
Along with Google Road View, which exhibits that the photograph was taken at this degree of the Georges Pompidou route, we discover the 2 crimson and yellow “sails” situated to the left and proper of the marina on a photograph of the set up “ FridayX sur Seine ”posted on Fb.
Lastly, a report produced on web site by CNews the identical night (seen beneath) definitively identifies the locations. We even see at one level (at 0’43) the marina, filmed from the heights, in all probability from the bridge the place the viral photograph was additionally taken.
A preventive suspension of the evenings
Three days after the night, “FridayX sur Seine”, which till now clearly indicated on its web site, the well being measures to be noticed throughout these gatherings, whereas recalling the scientific data round Covid-19 and its modes of transmission , introduced the suspension till additional discover of its numerous summer season evenings.
Maurice, one of many three co-organizers of the occasion, informed 20 minutes that this can be a “prevention” measure: “In normal times, excluding Covid-19, we meet 300 to 600 people on Wednesday, and 300 to 1,500 people on Friday, always with a peak of world around 9 p.m. Initially, when the evenings resumed at the end of June, there were a lot less people, people could spread out on the quays. But there was a spike in visits to the site after “FridayX sur Seine” was mentioned on M6 and BFMTV, with three to four times more people, especially on the pages of the next events, so we preferred to cancel by prevention, linked to Covid-19 but above all for global security, for fear of having too many people gathered under this bridge, knowing that we have already had a case of paving stones thrown over the crowd ”.
“It is a benevolent event which aims to unite. We had waited to observe how the other outdoor events were unfolding for several weeks before relaunching these evenings ourselves, after making sure that there was no case of an outdoor cluster ”, adds- he, specifying that this resolution was taken collectively by the three organizers, with out “any external pressure”, and that it was “well received by the customers”.
As indicated on the finish of June at 20 minutes two specialists questioned on the probabilities of transmission of Covid-19 throughout outside gatherings, if this danger is certainly current on this event, it stays a lot lower than in an enclosed area.
Genuine photographs of Lacanau, July 19
For his or her half, the photographs supposed to point out the crowded Lacanau seaside on July 19 are nicely in line with the legend and the date related to them since they had been taken by Julien Lestage, journalist at South West.
Video. Distance from the seaside: “In Lacanau, we have 16 km of coastline, make the effort to walk” [Premium 🔑] pic.twitter.com/O6OMJ8UZ30
– South West Bordeaux (@SO_Bordeaux) July 20, 2020
We discover them in his article of July 20, which underlined the notable distinction in conduct between two areas of the seaside, and the decision of an elected consultant of the city corridor to benefit from the 16 kilometers of seaside out there to respect the sanitary distances. :
“In Lacanau, final weekend, on the central seaside at excessive tide, the gang was concentrated in a particularly small space. About two kilometers away, nonetheless within the Lacanau sector, the super-south seaside, which can also be supervised, provided a really completely different “picture”. It was crowded however the umbrellas had been spaced out. “
The video additionally filmed on this event (and visual above) makes it doable to see much more clearly how holidaymakers stand at very completely different distances relying on which a part of the seaside they’re on.