Some celebrities have signed a petition against the opening of this brand in a typical place in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, highlighting the calm, security and the defense of small shops. Repeated by several articles, their mobilization triggered a media debate.
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It is a small picturesque square of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, typical of this opulent corner of the capital. A Wallace fountain embellishes a shaded flowerbed, at the intersection of the Bréa and Vavin streets, very close to the Luxembourg garden. The immaculate facade of a stands’ building, imagined by Henri Sauvage and Charles Sarazin architects, makes these small white tiles shrew typical of metro stations on the surface. The small square, very busy, is already home to a grocery store, sandwiches, a pharmacy, a real estate agency, restaurants, a cellar and shops … But for seven months, no one has been a break from the window of 19 rue Vavin.
The Oxybul toy store closed in early December, and the commercial premises were emptied. A Carrefour City supermarket should replace it during the summer course. This perspective is rejected by certain residents and lovers of the neighborhood, which launched a petition To denounce this establishment. This call notably brandishes the threat of an accumulation of waste in the square, a “Encouragement to begging”The influx of delivery vehicles and a deleterious effect on the living environment, with risks for the safety of residents. Petitioners say they support “True proximity shops against major distribution brands” and the “Safeguarding of the neighborhood as a protected area”.
The existence of a petition is initially reported on June 24 In the local pages of Parisian. But the case takes a completely different scale with the publication of two articles In the online media the letter and above all in the columns of M, the world magazineJuly 19 and 20. “It is a residential area, not a workers’ district. You have to take into account the biotope, it’s sociology!”Declares an old communicator under the cover of anonymity. “”When you are more than 20,000 euros per square meter, you don’t want to have a scum at the bottom of your home! “Add a hairdresser, who makes white hair at this idea.
But it is above all the presence of several personalities among the signatories who brings the petition out of the simple local setting. The world evokes the oppositions of former minister Jacques Toubon, singer Alain Souchon, essayist Alain Finkielkraut or actress Catherine Frot … As for businessman Denis Olivennes, adds the newspaper, he was “Enlisted on the fly, one in the morning of flea market”and says “Opposed to the closure of Oxybul”. The local deputy, the socialist Céline Hervieu, for her part, denounces in this article “A form of standardization” and evokes his attachment to “Specificities” from the neighborhood.
These known names are widely taken up on social networks, to better denounce the inter-self of an elite disconnected from realities and refuse social mix. “We created 13 social housing units a few meters away, at 46 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs”quips the communist senator PCF Ian Brossat. “”Inside workers, maternal assistants, garbage collectors. And all these beautiful people have survived, rest assured. ” The case takes such proportions that it is the subject of a debate in the program “Les Grandes Gueules”, on RMCand that she inspires The satirical site Le Gorafi :: “Residents will organize a Sans-Abris casting to do the Channel in front of the crossroads City”Imagine the false info site.
Pointed out since the publication of the article, the deputy Cécile Hervieu is forced to provide a development, with Release. “”The extreme right and the fachosphere manipulated my words unfortunately and concerning the article “defends the elected representative, regretting “Especially to be associated with other terrible verbatims” mentioned above and attributed to other interlocutors. On the other hand, she maintains her opposition to the establishment of a City Carrefour, judging that “It is the defense of our local shops that is at stake ” and that she would have “could say the same thing in a popular neighborhood”.
The article of World However, faced with a few disputes. The actor Pierre Richard, presented as signatory of the petition, denounces “A false news”,, In a video posted on Instagram – He was actually confused with a namesake, boss of the Dexia bank, will then specify The Parisian. Journalist Ruth Elkrief, whose name also circulated, specifies that she had not signed the petition, in a posted message On the X platform. “I just responded in the street to the initiator that I did not know. It was by no means support.” Monday morning, The world had a correction at the foot of his article, in order to express “Excuse to interested parties”.
The fact remains that the outbreak of rental prices leaves little room for independent businesses, and that large distribution has already invested the neighborhood: two Franprix at 100 meters and 300 meters, a monop ‘at 140 meters and another City crossroads at 400 meters. These small areas are swapping in city hearts for several years, because urban populations are more reluctant to move on the outskirts, where hypermarkets are traditionally installed. The Carrefour group today has nearly 4,000 local stores (from 70 to 1,200 m2) in France, under the Carrefour Express, Carrefour City, Carrefour Contact or Proxi brands. He faces groups like Monoprix or Casino on this very competitive field.
In 2016, several leftist training courses had thus denounced the opening of a crossroads in place of the Paris rectorate in the 20th arrondissement, in support of the small trade, then reported The Parisian. But this time, residents also seem to be concerned with the calm of Place Laurent-Terzieff and Pascale-de-Boysson, named in memory of the couple of actors, accustomed to the neighboring Lucernaire Theater. The mayor of the 6th arrondissement of Paris specified at the end of June to Parisian that guarantees had been provided by Carrefour before the store opened, namely the absence of terrace, roasting and light sign. Standing question, no doubt.
