“A very high financial bill”: 1,500 traders were affected by the violence on the sidelines of the October 17 mobilization, according to a distribution federation

A hefty addition for businesses. Alexandre Bompard, president of the Federation of Commerce and Distribution (FCD), estimated, on Sunday October 18, at 1,500 the number of businesses directly affected in France by the violence of the day before, for a bill of hundreds of millions of euros. "It's a little early" to assess the extent of the damage but "for all French commerce, 1,500 traders have been directly affected" and the bill will be "very high", said on LCI the president of this federation of players in large-scale food and specialized distribution.

“It is a very high direct financial bill,” he added, referring to an amount of “several hundred million euros”. Alexandre Bompard, who is also the CEO of Carrefour, also announced that around fifty stores of his brand had been affected, both “large hypermarkets, supermarkets and small convenience stores”. Around twenty of them were looted, he said. According to Alexandre Bompard, “this will amount to around a few tens of millions of euros for all our partners”.