For those who would be tempted, and the possibility, the police are putting in place, as of this Friday, reinforced controls to enforce containment measures and dissuade the French from leaving for the spring holidays.
“I asked the prefects a specific point on vacation rentals, in order to increase checks in certain areas if necessary. Our objective is to dissuade departures on vacation, with reinforced controls from major cities, in stations, on roads and in tourist places… ”, reminds the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner in Le Parisien this Friday.
Nearly 60,000 gendarmes will be mobilized to carry out the checks; in Ile-de-France, seven squadrons of a hundred men from the mobile gendarmerie and three helicopters are mobilized as reinforcements. Drones could also be used. In the Ile-de-France conurbation, the Paris police prefecture stressed that it wanted to enforce confinement "with the greatest firmness". "In the absence of valid proof, travelers will be fined for non-compliance with the confinement measures and will not be allowed to continue their journey, to take their train or their plane," she underlined.
All people in the same car
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Easter holidays begin this Friday evening for the academies of Paris, Créteil, Versailles, Montpellier and Toulouse. Schools, colleges, high schools, these academies alone bring together around 6.5 million students. For some parents who had taken a vacation, they are, unless a rule change, obliged to take it. In Sables-d'Olonne (Vendée), the mayor and the residents all year round fear the arrival of secondary residents.
Two days ago, Christophe Castaner had already punched the table, "Containment is a constraint, I know it. It is a constraint for families. But we must hold on to protect those we love, ”he said. This Friday morning in our columns, the Minister reminds that all those present in the same car can be fined. Or 540 € for four passengers.
Thursday evening, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe hammered the same message: "There must be no departure on vacation," he said on TF 1, "so that the start of the school holidays does not translate into journeys which would ruin the collective effort carried out over the past three weeks ”.
There should be no departure on vacation in the coming days. You would spread the virus and ruin our collective effort for almost three weeks. There will be checks.
I appeal to good citizenship, respect the rules of confinement. # COVID19
