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Lithuanian bar owners stage protest over lockdown hardship
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Bar owners protest action / D. Umbrasas/LRT
Lithuanian bar owners held a protest action over the weekend, saying the government s support during the lockdown was inadequate for the survival of the sector.
On Saturday afternoon, bar owners, employees and clients gathered outside bars for 15 minutes to draw attention to the hardship suffered by the sector under the lockdown.
“We deserve compensations, we were forced to close. Since this [the closing] was a public health measure, we believe that the public should chip in to carry out this measure,” Mark Adam Harold, head of the Vilnius Nightlife Alliance and one of the organisers of the action, was quoted by BNS. “Support is slow, we ve been without subsidy packages for four months.”