Toulouse. In the absence of an agreement between the fairgrounds and the town hall, the Saint-Michel 2022 party is definitively canceled
By Guillaume Laurent
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After weeks of conflict over the thorny issue of the future of the Saint-Michel funfair, a round table was organized on Saturday September 24, 2022 at the Capitole between the mayor of Toulouse, the prefect of Haute-Garonne, and the representatives of the fairgrounds. Objective: to find common ground and a solution for this event, which should have already started a week earlier.
“This meeting did not go as the fairground people wanted”, according to the Fédération des fairgrounds de France. They announce this Wednesday on Facebook the definitive cancellation of the 2022 carnival.
The carnies had tried to force their way through
A few hours after the meeting at the Capitole on Saturday, the tension had risen a notch when, around 11 p.m., a good dozen fairground vehicles wanted to settle by force in the parking lot of the Zénith, a place where they had their habits so far, since it was there that they had launched the last Saint-Michel party, a year earlier to the day…
Their installation was prevented by a large police force, deployed quickly on the spot. The engines then attempted to make the same forcing towards downtown this time, but again law enforcement intercepted them en route.
After a series of blockages on the roads
To make their dissatisfaction heard, the fairgrounds had organized several snail operations and other road blockages on Friday, September 16, in particular on the Toulouse ring road, in recent days. As a reminder, the blockages of the Toulouse September ring road had been lifted on Tuesday, September 20, when the fairgrounds had obtained an appointment with the Capitol, first fixed for the next day at 11:30 a.m., then postponed to Saturday 24, at the same time. , that a delegation of showmen was received by Jean-Luc Moudenc.
For this meeting to take place, Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor (LR) of the Pink City, had demanded “the stopping of the slowdowns on the roads of the Toulouse conurbation by the presence of your trucks and the commitment of give up this practice in the form of a coup de force”.
The showmen, who had to stay a month in Toulouse as every year, will then head to Perpignan, where the Saint-Martin Fair will be waiting for them, for a month, from October 29.
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