because of the health risks and financial, the festival will take place this year in the park of Courneuve. Another form is considered.
The traditional Festival of Humanity, organized every year by the daily of the left, will not be this year, announced on Monday the director of the newspaper, Patrick Le Hyaric. "The health risks, financial and judicial, we are obliged to renounce it to hold a Feast, even reduced, at the parc de la Courneuve", he explains.
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The director had first attempted to ensure the holding of the event, by lowering the number of visitors to 20 000 per day (compared with 300 000), or by increasing the budget of 100 000 euros to meet the health requirements, without success. This is the first time since Release that the event cannot be held.
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Date Of Update: 20 July 2020, 09:58
