A health campus for medical students and the issue of Sunday work on the menu of the Carcassonne municipal council

This last municipal council of the City of Carcassonne took place, as planned, without too many divisive issues. One of the deliberations to note concerns the acquisition by the municipality of the former Oliviers retirement home, in the Capucins district. While the retirement home was placed in liquidation almost a year ago, the City therefore wishes to become its owner. But not alone. “The idea is to create a public interest group, with the Agglomeration, the Department, the Region, and the Carcassonne hospital center, in order to make it a sort of health campus for medical students who come to do their internship in Carcassonne”underlined Mayor Gérard Larrat. And above all, through this installation, make them want to come back and settle there at the end of their studies, while the city is in the middle of a medical desert.

Projected, around fifty housing units, patios, a dining room with a professional kitchen, a rest room, a laundry, all in the immediate vicinity of Païcherou and its sports facilities.

To carry out this operation, the City therefore hopes to acquire the business, for an amount of €66,000, an offer which was made to the judicial liquidator of the retirement home. Provided you can, of course, also buy the walls. To be continued.

Opposition elected officials vote against authorizing businesses to open on Sundays

Among the points discussed by the municipal council, a deliberation on the subject of a collective exemption from Sunday rest on Sunday for employees in retail stores and the automobile sector. This exemption aims to authorize the businesses in question to open on Sundays July 13, 7, 14, 21, and 28 December 2025 for retail and Sundays January 19, March 16, June 15, September 14 and October 12, 2025 for automotive professionals. A deliberation that Tamara Rivel’s opposition group did not wish to vote on, for societal reasons: “If we can understand that we must support the economic activity of our city, this deliberation proposes no less than ten working Sundays. And this, while 25% of Carcassonne families are single parents, 90% of whom are women raising their children alone. children It is difficult for them to say no to their employer, when they do not have childcare. Women’s rights should not be debated in a municipal council but must be at the national level. we stop asking municipal councils to put a foot down on people already in difficulty. We will vote against it on principle..