Once again, here are the mayors on the front line to manage a crisis. Faced with the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, they are the first point of contact for a worried or isolated population. Above all, their police power takes on its full meaning since the vote on Sunday of an emergency law. Municipal police can now verbalize confinement offenses.
This does not prevent some city officials from wanting to go further by offering a curfew. Like the mayor LR of Nice, Christian Estrosi, who, as of Saturday, banned travel between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Its initiative, taken up by many city officials across the country, has been validated by the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture, which has extended it to coastal towns and cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
Conversely, the mayor (DVD) of Cholet, Gilles Bourdouleix, was cropped by the prefect of Maine-et-Loire. "I do not recommend a generalization of this measure which can be taken,
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