Anne Hidalgo wants “a place of active memory”

The PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced on Tuesday that she wanted to “build a place of active memory” in Paris in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus epidemic, whose death toll approaches 100,000 in France.

This place of memory, the form of which has yet to be specified, will be the fruit of a partnership with the “Covid-19 Ad memoriam” institute, of which professors Jean-François Delfraissy and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi are honorary presidents , said the mayor of the capital at the opening of the Council of Paris.

“A living memory of its psychological, social, political and economic effects”

A wish in this sense presented by the memory assistant Laurence Patrice for an “immaterial or material public tribute” was unanimously adopted by the municipal council. “We want to analyze this upheaval represented by the Covid-19 pandemic and thus contribute to building a living memory of its psychological, social, political and economic effects”, explained Anne Hidalgo, possible presidential candidate .

“Every day, nearly 300 people go missing in our country. Since the start of the pandemic, 100,000 people have died from Covid in France, ”said the mayor, stressing the“ unprecedented shock on the life expectancy of French women and men ”.

“More than a year to protect the 1.4 million Parisians”

“The quantities of vaccines allocated by the State remain far below what we need to achieve a sufficient level of collective immunization by the summer”, lamented the elected socialist, according to which “the acceleration “Promised by the government” does not come, or too timidly. We need vaccinodromes and a lot more vaccines, a lot faster. We must vaccinate 7 days a week and until late at night, ”she insisted. With only 16,000 first-time injections planned this week in the 24 Parisian centers, the campaign suffers from “delivery delays” and “growing mistrust of the AstraZeneca vaccine,” said Anne Hidalgo.

“At this rate, it would take us more than a year to protect the 1.4 million Parisians over 18 who have not yet had access to vaccination.” The mayor also recalled the economic cost of the crisis for the capital, “estimated at more than one billion euros”. Intervened by videoconference, the prefect of police Didier Lallement indicated that he was in contact. Two-thirds of those over 75 have received a first dose in Paris, he said.