Toulouse: the little “failures” of the night market Victor-Hugo
Wednesday evening, the Victor-Hugo market night hosted a great evening of the evening in this district of the hypercentre. With its few thousand visitors, this event around delicacies and local produce is known, as usual, to be very successful. However, this 2022 edition has experienced some hiccups, particularly in terms of communication. “Usually, we are informed of this animation, admits Ambre, faithful to this moment. This time, nothing. I learned it by hearing the music and discovering the street closures. Some motorists found themselves fined for parking not allowed. It’s a bit of a shame.”
Recently president of the Victor-Hugo market association, Gérard Calvayrac admits that he did not warn the communication agency as usual. “Next time I will!”
Moreover, the City of Toulouse which authorizes this installation and privatization of the public space, would have, it seems “forgotten” to have information panels on the district 24 hours before announcing this night. According to this information not revealed by the City, these panels could not have been put up until Wednesday noon. “In any case, notes the town hall, three hours of parking are authorized around the market. So if the signs have been installed, as it is possible, around noon, parking ended at 3 p.m. So the verbalization of certain is not related to this probable oversight.”
Clumsiness of the guards?
Another problem that occurred to Richard Mébaoudj, president of 60 million Pedestrians 31: “I was chased by two security guards simply because I questioned them on the reason for the search of the bags and that I wanted to take photos, gets angry this last one. I had to take refuge in a nearby cafe!”
Vigilant sides, the version is different. “This man criticized the refusal of a security guard to let homeless people with dogs in, explains Elemva, manager of Beri Security Service on which the company Ovas present on the night depends. He also wanted to take photos. But the security guard never did came out of the privatized area to race him.” In short ! Small failures that failed to spoil the party.