Difficult to control, they give the authorities a hard time.
The famous "clandestine parties", in the privacy of an apartment or outside, like the carnival of Marseille, become "the first difficulty" in terms of non-compliance with sanitary rules, estimates the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
Since January 15, the ministry has identified more than 300 “clandestine” events.
To enforce health measures against the Covid-19 epidemic, the police and gendarmerie "intervene in conditions where sometimes I ask myself questions about how a part, a very small part of our fellow citizens are not aware of what they are doing, ”the minister told the press during a visit to Bordeaux.
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"Yesterday and the day before yesterday, the police still made interventions with hundreds of people sometimes, without any protection", declared Gérald Darmanin who visited in particular the police station of Aubiers, a sensitive district of Bordeaux classified in "District of republican reconquest ".
"Police officers and gendarmes are also affected by the Covid"
“We know that it is the groups that cause the contamination.
In intensive care units, today, many departments are full, we are deprogramming, ”he recalled.
"So it is normal that the police of the Republic, the gendarmerie, can tell our fellow citizens, first in the form of education then in the form of verbalization and constraint: we must respect these rules to get out of this as quickly as possible. very complicated health period ”of Covid-19.
“We must all understand that the police and gendarmes are fathers and mothers also affected by the Covid.
A young peacekeeper died a few days ago from this disease, ”he added.
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“The instructions are for the days to come, the weeks to come, not to regroup, as much as possible.
The police will do educational work during the day, as they always have done, with a particular sign of firmness after 7 p.m. for the curfew, ”he said.