The Part-Dieu shopping center fears “kilometres of queues” with the Sanitary Pass
“Kilometers of queuing” before accessing shopping malls? This is the prospect that the leaders of the Lyon Part-Dieu complex discussed on Friday, after the government's decision to impose a control of the health pass at the entrance in August.
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The largest shopping center in Europe in the city center, owned by the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) group, welcomes 75,000 people a day on weekdays. A check of the health pass, at a rate of 30 seconds per person, would generate a queue of 17 kilometers at the main of the 22 entrances to the center, calculated its director Jean-Philippe Pelou-Daniel.
The probable result of this measure is a transfer of customers to businesses not subject to this obligation, while the center, "if it finds colors, is still very, very far from its levels of 2018 and 2019", pleaded Jean-Philippe Pelou-Daniel in front of the press. "It's a discriminatory measure," he said.
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Its implementation would involve recruiting 70 to 80 additional guards, vaccinated, by the end of the month, “which seems impossible to us”. In addition, noted Jean-Philippe Pelou-Daniel, these agents “are not authorized to carry out identity checks. They cannot replace the police”. The director, who was accompanied by the president of the association of merchants in the center Eric Amsellem, pleaded for a postponement of the application of the health pass to September 15. For him, the checks should be "random" and "provided by the police". "What has been decided cannot work", he added, denouncing measures "taken in haste, without prior consultation, with inapplicable deadlines".
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