"I invite you to go home and return home as soon as possible".
It is six o'clock.
Parisians must be at home.
Curfew requires.
2,400 police officers were "mobilized throughout the Parisian conurbation" to enforce the curfew which comes into force 2 hours earlier at 6 pm, as now everywhere in France.
"The population is now used to these measures so tolerance is much lower," said the central commissioner of the 7th arrondissement Olivier Goupil, the violations found will be "noted and fined".
So far, the 6 p.m. curfew had been in effect in 25 departments.
It now extends to the entire metropolitan territory and "for at least 15 days", as French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday.
Faced with the threat of new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus, it is for the government to "further reduce social contacts at the end of the day".
The exemptions remain the same as before (business travel, for a medical appointment, for a compelling reason ...) but the businesses must now lower the curtain at 6 p.m.
Bad news again, a few days before the start of the sales, but also for the restaurants also closed until mid-February and which are trying to survive thanks to take-out sales.
The number of cases remains high in France with around 20,000 new counted every day since the beginning of the year, far from the 5,000 hoped for in mid-December by the government, according to Public Health France.
Since the start of the epidemic, more than 70,000 people have died from Covid-19 in France.
