End of the Ironman of Nice. Start of summer sales. A heat wave effect that pushed the Azureans to the air conditioning of the Laurentin shopping center. Time of crowds for returning home. And icing on the cake: An accident at the same time on the Nice-West interchange towards Italy a little before the Nice-Airport exit.
This Sunday at the end of the day, the factors were combined to create a huge mess in the upstream car park of the Cap 3000 shopping center in Saint-Laurent-du-Var.
And this has put to the end of several motorists who, according to their bitter comments left on social networks, remained stuck for several hours in the bowels of the parking lot. The time required for the municipal police of Saint-Laurent-du-Var to intervene and fluidify, with difficulty, traffic outside.
Blocked for several hours
On the Facebook account of the Shopping Center, which was calling the Azureans this weekend to enjoy “These walks at the end of the day at Cap 3000” And to share his “More beautiful photo of Sunset”, Several dozen comments (1) of people trapped at the end of the day.
“You could have announced the brothel regarding your parking lot and the cut route !!! We would not have come. We are stuck in our car in your parking lot with children and without water !!!! It does not move. A shame this shit organization” writes a surfer. “”You should have closed the center today, blocked since 1:30 am without water even we come to see us with more than 40 degrees !!!!!! “ add another.
Total absence of communication from the center according to Internet users
In most comments is highlighted the lack of communication from the center. Before and during the crisis. Like this: “Not an announcement made on the complete saturation of the parking lot due to a sports competition. Two hours of waiting to reach the exit. Not a member of the staff capable of informing you an unreachable telephone reception.” said a surfer.
“There are pregnant women, babies, the elderly who are in the heat. CAP 3000 preferred to stay open and trap us today when it’s not the first time it has happened. And of course they don’t answer on the phone. Ashamed!“Said another.
Exasperated, they call for the boycott of CAP 3000
And on the Facebook page of the shopping center, many Internet users call for the boycott of CAP 3000. “My partner has been stuck in the parking (payable) for 4 hours. It did not advance 10 meters. Vehicles and minds heat up, health risks are at their maximum and this without the slightest staff intervening! add another. This is the endangerment of the life of others by negligence! It is simply unacceptable that nothing is implemented to improve the situation! Even if a sporting event is invoked by CAP 3000 as the origin of the situation, nothing was done upstream of this event to avoid this and nothing is done to remedy it. This shopping center prides itself on having had the title of best shopping center in 2022, but today it is undoubtedly the worst of all. A real trap! To boycott absolutely! “
“A rats trap, The best mall in the world ahahahathe good joke said another person who declares that they have been blocked 5 hours inside. No departmental authority has indeed deemed necessary to closed administratively CAP3000 due to Ironman. “
Exasperated, an Azurean also contacted us at the editorial staff to testify after having left this monster mess: “It was hell. I had to stay more than two hours stuck inside the parking lot. The barriers were open but no one could go out. People were screaming, got angry. I have never seen that. How we can not predict this kind of situation. It was the start of the sales and the Ironman, it was predictable I imagine …”
At 9 p.m. Sunday evening, according to the town hall of Saint-Laurent-du-Var everything had come back to normal.
(1): The comments posted on social networks have been taken up as is.
