Toulouse: to protest against the end of the Saint-Michel festival, the fairgrounds will demonstrate
For the first time since its creation, the Saint-Michel party will not take place. The showmen have filed a strike notice for September 16.
The latest editions were uncertain. The organization had been complicated in recent years for the Saint-Michel carnival, but it had held firm. This year, it will not take place. For 6 months, the negotiations have stalled. The working group set up by the town hall of Toulouse with the fairgrounds did not find a new location. “Despite the 25 sites examined (including 10 proposed by the fairground delegation of the Saint-Michel Fair) none have found favor with the new municipality and no permanent proposal has been able to succeed”, announces the fairground federation of France .
A solution had however been proposed by Jean Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse, for an installation at the MEETT, the new Parc des Expositions. A quickly aborted solution. “Indeed, the prohibitive rental price as well as the technical impossibility of installing a carnival thwarted this project which could not succeed”, indicates the federation of fairgrounds of France.
The FDFF wonders about the “legitimacy of asking the question of whether the new municipality really had the will to host the Foire Saint-Michel for a year of negotiations?”
According to her, the fairgrounds nevertheless trusted them by settling 10 years ago at the Zenith on a “temporary” basis while waiting to find a new location to receive them. No solution “has been found or accepted” by the new municipality to accommodate the 90 fairground companies which will now be at a standstill…
The Fédération de Forains de France filed a notice of demonstration in the prefecture of Toulouse on August 18, valid from September 16, 2022 (symbolic date of the first installations of the caravans participating in this fair) to October 16, 2022. The starting point of this gathering will be done from the Toulouse Nord toll gates. The route taken during this event will be via the various tolls, airport, ring road, Zénith and finally the city centre.