The ploys of those who want to defraud containment at all costs

While some try to circumvent government measures by dressing in joggers, meeting friends at the supermarket, or walking a rented dog on the Internet, others use even more extreme techniques to get around the ban travel as part of measures to combat the coronavirus epidemic.

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In total, in France, more than 225,000 minutes were drawn up, according to the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner.

Although confinement measures in Paris are respected by most residents, Rémy Heitz, the public prosecutor, told France Info's microphone that 25,000 reports had been issued since the restrictions were put in place. In the capital, since the start of confinement on March 17, police have carried out 303,000 checks, including 26,000 last Saturday, and 14,000 on Sunday March 29. “ For recalcitrants, we apply the texts with tickets, then with a system which is graduated with a heavier ticket in the event of recidivism. It can also be an offense if it is repeated four times. We already have a dozen such cases , ”added the prosecutor.

Apart from fines of up to 3,750 euros and imprisonment for 6 months, confinement fraudsters are also exposed to community service sentences of around 100 hours in hospitals.

• To get rid of the proof of travel, he steals an SOS doctors card

The theft of caregivers' cards so as not to have to fill out a derogatory displacement certificate has been an increasingly common break-in since the start of confinement. “ Several thefts have been reported in Poissy or even in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It's unfortunate, but caregivers must now think of removing them from the windshield ... As if they had only that to think, " deplore the Yvelines police. The latter arrested, on March 24, a man traveling with a card reserved for the disabled and an SOS doctors card. Contacted by the police, the organization gave the phone number corresponding to the card number. The latter is that of a doctor living in Montrouge in the Hauts-de-Seine. The doctor confirmed that he had his card, as well as the disabled card belonging to his mother, stolen.

• To avoid being confined to their home, a couple hides in a refuge in the Pyrenees

A couple from Toulouse had decided to hide during confinement in a mountain refuge. The offenders, who were spotted on March 29 by a gendarmerie helicopter carrying out checks to ensure compliance with the confinement, had taken care to conceal their vehicle and erase their tracks in the snow. It had been a week since they had locked themselves up in the "refuge du Bastan", at an altitude of 2230 meters, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, near Saint-Lary. The couple were fined for “breach of confinement”.

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• To escape verbalization, he gives his brother's name

Give a false identity to avoid taking a fine for non-compliance with the rules of containment, this is what attempted to do a minor 17 years old, Tuesday, March 24, in Angers, in Maine-et-Loire. While he was on the street with a group of friends, the latter, arrested by the police, gave the first and last name of his older brother to avoid the ticket. A few minutes later, the group re-formed, the police intervened again, and the teenager fled. Caught, the police observed that the minor also had cannabis in his possession. Prosecuted for drug possession and identity theft, he was summoned before a juvenile judge on June 11.

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• To meet in privacy, lovers meet in a car

They wanted to see each other at all costs and thought they were out of sight and out of the police ... in a car. The gendarmes of Haute-Garonne in Muret, near Toulouse, spotted a suspicious vehicle parked on the recreation area of ​​Lac des Bonnets. Approaching the vehicle, the soldiers surprised a couple in their thirties making love. The two lovers were fined 135 euros for non-compliance with the confinement.

• He tries to go out at night in secret, he gets verbalized 4 times in a week

He thought he could avoid filling out the travel certificate by going out at night. Last week, in Nantes, a 35-year-old man was twice fined on March 24, including one at 10 p.m., for which he claimed to go out to buy cigarettes. The third PV was drawn up on Saturday 28, around midnight. The offender said he had visited a friend at the hospital, who was said to have had an accident. Finally, this Monday, March 30, he had justified his presence by running errands, but without having any food products with him at the time of the control.

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• To get some fresh air without proof, he goes out to do a paraglider, does 6 tricks, and gets arrested

In the skies, he thought he was not worried by the police and could be able to take the air quietly, without certification, at 840 meters above sea level. After six figures in the Aveyron sky, the man landed at Millau Plage, where the police picked him up. Verbalized just after landing, the man was fined 135 euros for not respecting the confinement rules.

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