After having forbidden its citizens to buy only one baguette at the bakery, the mayor of Sanary-sur-Mer (Var) has issued a new order now preventing them from going further than 10 m from their home , fight against Covid-19 requires. " It limits outings to their simplest expression, " acknowledged Ferdinand Bernhard to AFP, after this municipal decree reducing from 200 m to 10 m the new maximum distance authorized for walks of Sanaryans and Sanaryennes.
" It is forbidden to jog, like to walk your dog ", insists the elected official, who had already closed the markets " for a long time ": " Otherwise everyone always has good reasons to go out ". In the fight against the new coronavirus, the mayor of this town on the Var coast has decided to strike hard: " The government is a bit complicated to follow ", estimates Mr. Bernhard, for whom the only authorized exits are therefore go shopping. On the condition of course of making group purchases: " No question of going out to go only to buy the newspaper, then going out for a carrot and then for a baguette!" "
This new decree will be applied by the 12 municipal police, but from Monday only: " Until then we will be in education, but then we will have no mood, " said the mayor, who has just started his 6th term after being re-elected in the first round in the municipal elections, on March 15 These new instructions were transmitted directly to some 5,000 residents of the town, via a video sent by email: " Given the crisis we are going through, the GDPR, we have gone beyond these stories, " he defends himself, about the Regulation. European Union on the protection of citizens' data. And these images were also posted on the city's website and via Facebook.
" The confinement is respected by 99.5% of people in the town, but there remains a bunch of recalcitrants who risk spreading the contamination, they are the ones we are targeting, " added Mr. Bernhard to AFP. . As for the fine in the event of violation of this decree, it will be 135 euros, " the government rate ". And all the proceeds will be donated " to the carers of the hospitals: we are not there to make money, just to save lives ".