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Paris, Jan 24 (EFE).- To access restaurants, bars or gyms in France it is necessary to be immunized once morest covid from this Monday. The entry into force of the vaccination pass represents a new challenge for a sector so affected by the health crisis. However, this device has not aroused, for the moment, “distrust” of the clientele.
An EFE team toured several establishments in the center of Paris, whose managers did not notice changes or special problems during the first hours of the entry into force of the law, approved a week ago following a tortuous legislative path.
“In our club there have been no suspicious clients; on the contrary, the members fully understand it, we do our job and comply with what the Government asks of us,” Nicolas Ferrara, manager of a gym next to the Stock Exchange, told EFE. .
Ferrara does not fear a decrease in clients, because, he estimates, the factor that weighs the most is remote work, and do not pass them, nor the current vaccination, nor its predecessor, the toilet, which also worked with a negative test of covid, something that the new norm has eliminated to stimulate immunization.
“There are some clients who resist, but they end up understanding it, because it is not us (the gyms) who impose it,” he explains.
The verification of the identity associated with the vaccination pass by the restorers, an action normally carried out by the State Security bodies, has been one of the most tricky issues of the new law. The legislators approved it at the end of a long negotiation and the Constitutional Council ended up giving the go-ahead.
Bruno Truel, who runs the Scandinavian-inspired bar Nutbar, admits that he doesn’t see the need to ask for identification, because “these are regular customers” whom he knows.
“It follows the same procedure (as in the health pass), people show their code, we scan it and if the green light comes on, you can enter,” explains Truel.
The manager, however, will lend himself to verifying the identity in case he sees “someone who appears on his pass 50 years old and has the appearance of a person of 18”.
In the Vaudeville cafeteria, which has just turned a century, they also have a certain distrust of asking for an identity document so as not to “bother” customers.
WAVE OF FALSE PASSES
Precisely, the cases of falsification of health passes, starting today for vaccinations, have numbered several hundred thousand, according to the authorities.
To counteract this phenomenon, the Government has, among other measures, an increase in fines (up to 75,000 for those who have several false passes) and greater control by restorers. At least that is what the French Executive trusts.
“If a client arrives who does not want to show the pass, who does not agree, that there is any doubt regarding his identity, what is the interest of the restaurateur? That of verifying his identity so that the virus does not circulate and does not contaminate, for example , to its employees,” Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said today in an interview with France Info.
Antonio Torres del Cerro
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