Artists from Puy du Fou with a masks, June 11, 2020. – NEW CHINA / SIPA
The controversy raised by the presence of 12,000 folks within the gallery within the midst of the coronavirus epidemic was beginning to swell. To reply this, the Puy du Fou introduced on Sunday that it might restrict the variety of spectators to its well-known Cinéscénie to five,000.
Le Puy du Fou welcomed 12,000 spectators final night time # JT13H pic.twitter.com/8rk7uWyYBg
– Information France 2 (@ infofrance2) July 25, 2020
This system appears to lift issues that might hurt the serenity of our future spectators. Because of this, the Cinéscénie is not going to welcome greater than 5,000 spectators from its subsequent efficiency. (2/2)
– Puy du Fou (@PuyduFou) July 25, 2020
“In permanent consultation with the State, the Puy du Fou opened the Cinéscénie in 3 stands in compliance with the health protocol aimed at guaranteeing the safety of its spectators”, defined the second French theme park. “This device seems to raise concerns which could harm the serenity of our future spectators”, it was due to this fact determined to cut back the gauge “as quickly as [la] subsequent efficiency ”specified the administration of the park positioned in Les Epesses, in Vendée.
An SMS from Emmanuel Macron questions
The photographs of 12,000 spectators, all sporting a masks, had sparked an argument on social networks. Some Web customers had significantly puzzled in regards to the legality of this out of doors spectacle whereas gatherings of greater than 5,000 folks stay prohibited in France. The date of its reopening had itself been the topic of controversy. The founding father of the park, Philippe de Villiers, had made public an SMS from President Emmanuel Macron giving him the inexperienced gentle for the reopening. The gesture had been seen by some as a mark of favoritism.
