For months Emilie is stamping her feet and waiting for only one thing: to find her habits before the Covid-19.
Or the life of a young 22-year-old woman who "loves to party", going out every weekend, alternating "nightclubs, music festivals, bars, dinners with friends".
Confined with her boyfriend in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne), the young woman has already planned to meet her friends on New Year's Eve for a long, lively night that will stretch until 6 a.m., history of "Brave the curfew".
Partying at all costs is the intention of a large part of young people at the end of the second confinement according to a survey carried out by the insurer MAAF that we are revealing to you
(The data comes from 2 surveys carried out via the JAM chatbot on Messenger between November 18 and 25 and between November 25 and December 6, 2020 with 4,567 and 3,442 young people adjusted on 2 samples of 1,000 respondents aged between 18 and 24, representative of the population of 18- 24 in France according to INSEE quotas.
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42% of 18-24 year olds plan to "let go" during a deconfinement evening in a small group and 20% "have a big party
(Editor's note: party in verlan)
without limit".
Letting go, in their minds, in 39% of cases it is "letting go on alcohol" and in 3% of cases consuming drugs.
Figures that worry Pierre Negre, Prevention Manager at MAAF: "When we discover that one in two young people have let go of alcohol or drugs during post-confinement evenings, we can only be worried about their return to the road" .
Especially since 43% of young drivers questioned admit in this same survey having already driven drunk or under the influence of drugs.
And confinement has not changed these bad habits.
3% of young people questioned evoke drugs to "let go".
(Illustration) / LP / Jean Nicholas GUILLO
One… two or three evenings
27% thus admit having spent at least one evening during confinement, 10% “several” and 17% “one or two”.
90% of these evenings were held in a private "home" but 6% of 18-24 year olds admit having participated in a clandestine party and 4% in an outdoor party.
Their only fear: the police (52%) followed at a distance by that of contracting the virus (15%).
And for the management of their return home, 30% returned by car.
“Evenings, I do as much as I can otherwise I would go crazy, admits Emma, 22, who lives in a studio in Paris (XI).
I made one at my house last Friday when there were about fifteen of us ”.
And yes, alcohol was there.
“Even more perhaps since confinement,” admits the student who admits that her friends then return by all possible means: by taxi but also by car or on two wheels.
“The other night, a friend of mine blew his jaw when he got home at 2 am on his bike”.
He had drunk too much.
A pressure cooker effect
Despite the calls not to go out or to be together in the same room, Victor has never given up on “feasting” with his friends.
It was at the end of an evening more drunk than the others that he was arrested by the police when he had 1.30 g of alcohol in his blood.
This earned him an immediate suspension of the license and being summoned to court on Thursday.
Since then, it is more at his place that the evenings take place, with four to five gatherings organized per month.
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“In this age group, many have experienced this confinement as in a pressure cooker, analyzes Adrien de Sade, head of the Stratevent agency, which leads in particular road prevention operations with young people.
For them, deconfinement risks being explosive, in particular during the end of the year celebrations when one can fear overflows in terms of alcohol consumption ”.
“Of course we all wait to be able to let go, admits Emilie, the young woman from Vincennes.
But that doesn't prevent you from paying attention: at parties, I no longer kiss, I don't share a cigarette or a drink with someone else and my boyfriend orders an Uber if you've had too much to drink. .
Since one of our friends found himself in a coma for two weeks after a scooter accident while he was drunk, we've been hyper-serious ”.