More than 6,000 police officers were deployed this Easter weekend in Ile-de-France to enforce health rules.
On the Canal Saint-Martin, commissioner Jean-Sébastien Rosadoni ensures compliance with barrier gestures.
“The watchword, of course, is firmness,” the commissioner told Reuters.
We will issue a ticket as soon as it is necessary, he continues, in particular concerning the main prohibitions, that is to say the non-wearing of the mask, the gathering of more than six people on the public highway and the consumption of alcoholic drinks. , on the axes determined by the police chief.
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Sébastien, 25, who came for a beer on the canal was fined € 135.
"I do not see what is worse between drinking a beer and talking on the quays," laments the young man.
On the quays of the Seine, the gendarmes also patrolled.
“Usually, it is not a problem that we are seated and that we do not wear the mask, breathes Ersin, 29 years old.
And I don't see why I'm going to nab the Covid just because I don't have the mask on when I'm sitting 50m away from everyone.
Saturday evening, the restrictive measures, which only concerned 19 departments, were extended to the whole of France.
