Sitting in the grass, facing the lake in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris, Pauline, 26, devours a book of poems while enjoying the sun cure.
To afford this bucolic escape, she ticked, on the online certificate of exceptional travel, the box "walk" in "a maximum radius of one kilometer around the home" and "within the limit of one hour daily ".
“But I'm going to stay longer,” she admits.
How? 'Or' What ?
By generating, neither seen nor known, on site after an hour, a new certificate, for the same reason, from his smartphone.
“I'm not doing anything wrong, look, there's no one around me.
Well, I am in order, I have my certificate.
I have a friend who was fined 135 euros for not having it when he went to get the bread, so I still have one on me.
Even if I do ten during the day ", recognizes the young woman in a T-shirt, who" does not feel like she is confined ".
The scheme is hardly risky.
In the event of a check, the police do not have access to the history of certificates and the website of the Ministry of the Interior does not keep in mind the various reasons for travel.
The person would have to be checked twice by the same brigade on the same day for the trick to be discovered.
72,279 VP still trained
In the alleys of the capital's green bubble, it is not uncommon to meet citizens like Pauline, playing with the possibilities offered by certificates and thus bypassing the spirit of the law so as not to remain cloistered at home.
For very short trips, some even go so far as to dispense with it.
“When I go shopping in front of my house, I am too lazy to do one.
I have never been checked, even during the first confinement, so I take advantage of it, ”says Elodie, 17, in first class.
His 16-year-old friend Sarah is wiser.
"Me, I only go out to go to high school," she says.
It has also "never been checked".
“It's not normal,” she wonders.
Municipal agents pass in the alleys of the Buttes-Chaumont to enforce the rules of confinement./LP/Delphine Goldsztejn
However, the verbalizations exist.
Between October 30 and November 8, 72,279 reports were drawn up by police officers, gendarmes and municipal police officers for offenses relating to reconfinement, in particular for lack of certification.
This is three times less than during the first days of confinement last spring.
Between March 17 and March 26, there were, in fact, more than 225,000 verbalizations from the police.
“Frankly, these attestations, that inflates me!
Blows Thierry, 55, salesman nose to the wind, having put away his mask to breathe the air of Buttes-Chaumont.
He has a document from his employer allowing him to leave Paris and another that he himself generated on the website of the Ministry of the Interior for his business trips.
“I even use them when I go shopping or jogging.
Well, if I get checked in shorts and sneakers, it sucks, I'm dead!
»He blurted out.
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There are also the distracted ones, like Maria, 35, who has already forgotten to download the essential sesame when it comes to the daily walk with her baby.
It almost cost him dearly once.
“I saw the cops in the distance, I had time to download the certificate on my phone,” she says.
32-year-old real estate agent Benjamin is also sometimes dizzy.
"When I'm in a hurry, I forget", confesses the father who, on the other hand, has always had the good reflex of downloading when picking up his children from school.
"My grandma too, she has already forgotten her certificate", wishes to clarify her little girl ... in kindergarten.
"It's so easy to get out!"
Many people encountered in the Buttes-Chaumont park do not need to wear a mask, which is however compulsory.
/ LP / Delphine Goldsztejn
Antoine, a salesperson, sometimes has his head elsewhere.
“When I go to work or to go shopping, half the time I forget about it.
But luckily, every time I was checked, I had it on me, ”said this thirty-something, reading a book… without a mask.
In his eyes, the confinement rules are far from being respected by all French people.
And for good reason.
“To adhere to measures, you have to have confidence in the government.
There, a good part of the people does not give it any credit, ”he observes.
Lionel has already produced a certificate live when he was outside on his way to the supermarket.
“It's very easy to fill one, it takes a minute.
It's so easy to get out!
Judge this forty-year-old lawyer.
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Gaëlle, architect and Jean, emergency doctor, a couple in their thirties, are themselves "good students", very keen on respecting certificates.
"I was checked once at a toll on the A4 motorway," says Mr.
"Me, never in intramural Paris", continues Madame.
For them, the affluence of the Buttes-Chaumont park this Monday resembles that of an "ordinary Sunday".
“If we can't count on people's discipline, we're not going to get out of it,” they point out.
Ruth, 59, is also "very legit", in particular because she is "a cop girl".
She is surprised to see so many people.
“People are less afraid,” she says.
“On television, they say we respect confinement.
Me, I do not have the impression ”, worries about his side Lydia, 75 years old, in“ walk ”with her daughter Stéphanie.
"Saturday, here, it was armored", describes the latter, 44, secretary, who does the shopping for her mother in order to limit her movements as much as possible.