How to punish those who do not respect - and repeatedly - containment? The Paris prosecutor has an opinion on the matter. Rather than heavy fines in the event of aggravated non-compliance with confinement linked to the coronavirus epidemic, Rémy Heitz advocates community service penalties "executed in hospitals", in an interview with Le Monde broadcast this Wednesday.
“I am going to give directives to adapt the penal measures, in particular by giving priority to community service (TIG). These offenses often concern a young population, for which a fine of 3,750 euros is undoubtedly too high, and a prison sentence is not really topical, "he explained in the columns of the daily.
Since the law on the state of health emergency published Tuesday in the Official Journal, and entered into force for an initial duration of two months, the non-respect of the rules of confinement makes incur a fine of 135 euros, raised to 1500 euros in recurrence within 15 days. And, in the case of four violations within thirty days, the penalty is increased to a fine of 3,750 euros and a maximum of six months in prison.
TGI performed "in a hospital environment"
For the capital's prosecutor, “a TIG sentence, even if it is only executed after the end of the state of health emergency, will make more sense. I am also considering the possibility of having them performed in a hospital environment. "
According to Rémy Heitz, just under 10,000 offenses have been noted in Paris since the start of confinement, according to a count made on Tuesday, and "around fifteen cases of mask trafficking", often "petty traffic", have been updated. "In total, we have already seized tens of thousands of masks that we are wearing in hospitals," he said, while health workers denounce a cruel lack of equipment.
"In addition, we are starting to see cases of domestic or intra-family violence," he also noted.
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Tuesday, on RTL, he had already explained that delinquency at the time of the coronavirus offered "a contrasting assessment: there is less delinquency in public roads for example, since in the metro, there are few people, there of course has practically more pickpocketing or things like that ", but" there may be another phenomenon, it is a delinquency of opportunity ", due to" some people [who] can take advantage of the situation "