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Coronavirus: on the Paris ring road, police checks at the entrance to the “autoroute du soleil”

2020-04-03T16:42:45.750Z


Road traffic is almost nonexistent this Friday evening, with a single kilometer of traffic jam created by the police checks that ensure compliance with confinement.


"The virus is not on vacation" hammered Prime Minister Edouard Philippe Thursday evening on TF1, imploring the French not to travel to the country for the Easter holidays. In anticipation of any possible departure, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has greatly strengthened the police system.

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This Friday at the end of the afternoon, while zone C (Paris, Versailles, Créteil and Montpellier) begins fifteen days of school holidays, road users have noticed the formation of a traffic jam on the Paris ring road, at exit level towards the A6, the famous “sun highway”. Many violators of government orders, ready to invade the French coast?

Not exactly, if we believe the Sytadin site which gives the state of road traffic live in Île-de-France. This Friday at 6 p.m., there is only one small kilometer of traffic jam on the Paris ring road, effectively at the exit leading to the south.

Only one kilometer of traffic jam should be noted this Friday, April 3 in Paris. Sytadin.fr

Exceptionally low traffic for the capital, which would rather demonstrate compliance with sanitary containment measures.

Traffic is almost zero in Paris this Friday evening. Sytadin.fr

In reality, the kilometer of traffic jam that makes some people fear a (new) exodus of Parisians is created ... by the controls of the police forces deployed to prevent it. As journalist Rémy Buisine notes, it is the police stationed at the entrance to the exits to the south of Paris, carrying out checks on compulsory certificates to move around, which causes the accumulation of road users at this location. place. Let the inhabitants of Noirmoutier be reassured, a new wave of Ile-de-France residents is not about to surge on their shore.

Source: lefigaro

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