La Gaîté-Lyrique requests the Paris Town Hall the promised monetary assist, to have the ability to reopen to the general public | EUROtoday

The administration of the Gaîté-Lyrique, compelled to shut the cultural institution in December due to its occupation by younger migrants, alerted Thursday May 15 on its monetary state of affairs and denounced the “Reverse” From the Paris city corridor, which had dedicated to assist its reopening.

La Gaîté-Lyrique, whose partitions belong to the municipality, assesses its working losses to almost 3 million euros, a consequence of “One hundred days of occupation” By greater than 400 younger migrants, evacuated in March by the police.

“The city of Paris has finally returned to us the keys (…) And the teams can finally reinvest the place ”announces the management of Gaîté-Lyrique in a press release. But the town hall, which “Haded himself to compensate for a part of our losses financially, has turned away”deplores its director to the France-Presse (AFP) agency, Juliette Donadieu, denouncing a “Incomprehensible abandonment” from the municipal executive.

The socialist town hall replied in a press release that she had “Trigger, inside extraordinarily brief deadlines, the cost of a stability of 1.3 million euros for a price range paid by town to the Gaîté-Lyrique of three.1 million for the 12 months 2025”.

“In April, the Paris Council undertook to rehabilitate the establishment to support the return to the premises and the resumption of activity. This commitment, we are there ”assures AFP Carine Rolland, deputy mayor, Anne Hidalgo, responsible for culture.

But for the manager of the Gaîté-Lyrique, it is only a “Sum due as a part of a standard exploitation, when it has been weeks that we have now evaluated, with the city corridor, the distinctive losses”.

Reopening to the compromised public

Without additional compensation and financing, “La Gaîté-Lyrique, economically exsangue, will quickly be in safeguard process and won’t be able to reopen to the general public”warns the management of the place, which employs 80 people.

“Despite its commitments, town turns its again on an emblematic cultural institution”denounces the first opposition group to the Paris Council, Union Capital, on the social network X.

“To abandon the Gaîté-Lyrique is to weaken a pillar of Parisian cultural and democratic life”reacted, for their part, elected Parisian environmentalists.

Between December and March, the place was occupied by hundreds of young migrants awaiting a accommodation solution, who said they were trying to have their minority recognized, disputed by the town hall and the regional prefecture.

They had been expelled from the premises on March 18, for lack of agreement between the town hall and the State on their future. Faced with the lack of proposals for perennial accommodation, many young people returned to the street after the evacuation, according to the youth collective from Belleville Park, which brings together some of the young exiles that were present.

“The sanction of this collective failure can in no case be the sacrifice of a cultural place and its 80 jobs”insists the management of the Gaîté-Lyrique.