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Confinement: deputies from lower-income neighborhoods challenge the government

3/23/2020, 7:48:38 PM


Not respected, confinement is taken lightly in so-called sensitive neighborhoods. Some MPs are calling for a localized curfew and "more drastic measures".

Altercations with the police, overcrowded small accommodation, drug trafficking, inability for students to access online courses ... In sensitive areas, the application of confinement measures increases the difficulties of everyday life. "It is not confinement, but living conditions close to prison conditions" , judge Bruno Bonnell, deputy La République en Marche du Rhône. The police of Villeurbanne, a commune in the Lyon suburbs, describe to him "a game of hide and seek" with the population. "We cannot say that confinement is respected, this is not true!" Observes the elected official.

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In Bezons (Val-d'Oise), these are three young people who boasted, in a video, of being contaminated by the coronavirus and of wanting to transmit it to the population. They were arrested and fined. "There are some who take things lightly, or who sometimes relay conspiratorial speeches" , denounces Fiona Lazaar, the LREM MP for this territory, who advocates more "pedagogy"

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