the showmen will block the ring road again this Monday afternoon
The showmen announced that they would once again block the ring road and the city center of Toulouse this Monday, September 19 from 2 to 7 p.m. In the midst of negotiations on the future of the Fête Saint-Michel, they want to put pressure on the town hall.
The return to work promises to be complicated on part of the ring road and downtown Toulouse this Monday, September 19. After paralyzing traffic in the Pink City last Friday, the fairgrounds announced new blockages and snail operations between 2 and 7 p.m.
Like last Friday, the showmen will leave the Toulouse-Nord toll booth to join the ring road and then go to the city center. The northern ring road, the airport district and downtown Toulouse will therefore be particularly affected.
And this snail operation will surely not be the last. ” On deposit a notice from September 16 to October 16 “explains Thomas Bruch, member of the Federation of Showmen of France, ” without agreement with the town hall on the Fête Saint-Michel, the roads are blocked in the same way every day, except on weekends “.
The blocking will not start until 2 p.m. this Monday, “ to give the fairgrounds time to dismantle their weekend attractions “says Thomas Bruch. ” But since we don’t have any more parties afterwards, the blockages will start in the morning “Assures the showman.
After having organized the Fête Saint-Michel for 10 years at the Zénith in Toulouse, the fairgrounds no longer have land to set up this year, local residents having complained about the nuisances.
Following the demonstration last Friday, the mayor of Toulouse reacted in a press release sent to the Fédération des Forains de France. Jean-Luc Moudenc denounced ” a way of acting likely to prevent the creation of a climate of trust, essential to work on the search for a solution for the Toulouse public “.
Response from the showmen by press release the next day, which considers that the municipality “ does not care about the figure of the showmen who for several months, weeks, try to find a solution and to propose sites which each time are not suitable for the services of the Town hall of Toulouse, under pretexts and fallacious motives », and asks « a meeting with the mayor of Toulouse in person, as well as the prefect, around a table “.
The town hall of Toulouse claims to have proposed three possible locations for the Fête Saint-Michel, but to have encountered the refusal of the fairgrounds.
” We are open to dialogue and we want to find solutions but we really have the feeling that the will of the town hall is to suppress the Fête Saint-Michel says Thomas Buch, member of the Fédération des Forains de France.
The party was theoretically to begin on September 24, but for the time being no appointment is planned to try to settle the question.