"I have never seen so many people per square meter for cigarettes!" Adrien, a French tattoo artist whose shop is located opposite a Spanish tobacco shop, saw hundreds of people parading at Perthus on Monday. A crowd of French people went to this small town on horseback between France and Spain to buy Spanish products less taxed than in France on the first day of deconfinement.
“There was a human tide, with people glued together who argued for the place. There were even altercations between motorists and passers-by… ”, says this trader. The prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales called on the French to postpone their trip to Perthus and to exercise "vigilance and common sense." "
