Violence of October 17: the State will cover 100% partial unemployment from Tuesday for looted businesses, announces Lecornu

“It is out of the question that there will be social damage after the damage itself.” The government will trigger “partial unemployment” measures, covered at 100%, for employees of businesses damaged and looted over the weekend, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced this Monday, October 19, at the end of an interministerial crisis unit. The measure, implemented via a “ministerial instruction”, will be effective from this Tuesday.

The executive also intends to “unlock a support fund” for traders whose shops have been ransacked. “At least 3,000 businesses” were targeted, according to Minister Serge Papin, who spoke following the Prime Minister. “There is a need for cash,” observed the tenant of Matignon, recalling that “many merchants had already stocked up for Christmas.”

Insurers called upon to facilitate procedures

The head of government also urged insurers to facilitate the procedures of traders whose shops were attacked over the weekend, and to quickly pay compensation. Discussions are underway, said Sébastien Lecornu, estimating that this involves “accelerating the various expertises” and “avoiding bringing traders into endless administrative hassles”.

The Prime Minister also called on prosecutors to ensure that the civil liability insurance of arrested and tried thugs is mobilized to reimburse, “even before the public agent is mobilized”. And he insisted: “It is above all those who broke who must pay.”