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Paris (France), June 1, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Julien de Rosa).- French bars and restaurants are preparing to reopen on June 2, following two months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic that has hit the country.FOOTAGE OF RESTAURANTS AND BARS IN PARIS.
Yuncos, Toledo, May 30 (EFE).- Some twenty circus artists stranded in Toledo, Spain, due to lockdown prepare for the show reopening in June.FOOTAGE OF CIRCUS ARTISTS IN TOLEDO, SPAIN.
French President Emmanuel Macron checks Notre Dame's new spire and speaks with people in charge of the cathedral's restoration. exactly one year till it is scheduled to reopened on Dec 8th, 2024. The UNESCO-listed building was badly damaged by fire in 2019. IMAGES
French police prepare to carry out a new search for the body of Estelle Mouzin, the alleged victim of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, in the Ardennes, in northeastern France. Fourniret, the "Ogre of the Ardennes", confessed to killing 11 people, and died in May aged 79, taking his final secrets to the grave and denying families of victims long-awaited justice. IMAGES
Paris, Jun 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Marta Garde / Ian Langsdon) A municipal decree has sown discord in the square of painters in Paris. The City Council has changed the process of granting authorizations and its artists have decided to symbolically protest with their best weapon: a blank canvas.FOOTAGE FROM THE MONTMARTRE PAINTERS 'STRIKE IN PARIS. SOUNDBITES FROM José Luis Leiva, Spanish painter, and Béro, French painterTRANSLATIONLEIVA -We want to reclaim our spaces, we have been here for more than 30 years. The identity of this place is in danger. We can tell the story of this place. Young people don't know its history. This place is unique. No other place in the world where you can see painters doing their work. It's about the destruction of this place, it will become a place full of sellers, not artists.BERO -It is not a question of preserving privileges, but of preserving the identity of Montmartre-The new regulation seems inappropriate to us. It is one that normally applies only to economic activities on public space. It is true that we artists have an economic activity, but our activity is above all cultural.
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to high school students in the hospitality industry during a visit to a hotel school in the Drôme (south-east France), on the eve of the reopening of restaurants. IMAGES