"We have already returned to the level of the month of September", assures this Monday the Ministry of the Interior which announced last November 10 to have asked the prefects to toughen the checks of the famous QR code.
But the goal is not achieved so far.
"We must amplify this effort", he insisted, asking for more "firmness" in the checks of the pass in the restaurants.
"It is imperative to re-mobilize all the actors concerned by the application of the health pass in order to limit the effects of the new rise in contaminations", indicated the Minister of the Interior in a telegram addressed to the prefects, while the epidemic rebound is confirmed.
"I ask you to bring together without delay the departmental representatives of the hotel and catering trades in order to remind them of their obligations relating to the health crisis", he added, referring to the control of the health pass for both customers. and employees.
In this note, Gérald Darmanin also asks to "maintain at a high level the mobilization" of the police, "by resorting, if necessary, to the administrative closure of establishments".
"This is not acceptable"
The president of the employers' union of independent hotel and restaurant workers, Didier Chenet, also called on Monday not to release the pressure. "To those who do not control that of their customers and their employees, I tell you: this is not acceptable because, beyond you, it is the entire profession that you are endangering. exposing it to a general closure measure, ”said Mr. Chenet.
Asked by Le Parisien on how to stop this drop in checks in cafes and restaurants, Hubert Jan, president of the catering branch at the Union des métiers et des industries de l'hôtellerie (Umih) said he was aware of 'a certain laxity which sets in, and assured that the professional organization has "multiplied the initiatives to call on its members to be more vigilant".
But “we cannot do everything alone!
", He had declared, adding that it was also necessary that" the pedagogy and the controls by the police force resume ".
According to the Minister of the Interior, the number of checks of the QR code by the police rose to about 50,000 people and about 8,000 establishments checked this week against half as much last week.