It is one of two rare differences, on paper, between departments classified red and those in green. In the former, the parks and gardens must remain closed during the first phase of deconfinement, which began on May 11.
Anne Hidalgo however asked again this morning on Twitter to open parks and gardens in the capital, which remained closed on Monday. And for good reason: Paris is not only a department in red, but the Île-de-France is also the most energetic metropolitan region, said Edouard Philippe on May 7.
Taking into account the needs of Parisians, because Paris is a very dense city, I renew my request to open up the parks and gardens with a mandatory mask to the promenade, which should also be the case in all the streets of our city .
- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) May 12, 2020In a press release published on May 8, the Prefecture of Police had announced the reopening of the Bois de Vincennes and the Bois de Boulogne, the Champ-de-Mars, as well as tracks on the bank.
But, at the same time, "the classification of Paris in the red zone requires that the parks and gardens be closed until further notice". "The prefect of police will re-examine this situation, in conjunction with the mayor of Paris, as soon as regulatory constraints or health data evolve", he added.
The deconfinement will be done gradually: certain measures taken during the previous weeks will be lifted from May 11 by the @prefolice and the city of @Paris.
Find the list of measures concerned 👇 pic.twitter.com/yfjWTVu2wv
The health situation changed slightly in three days (the number of intensive care patients in Paris went from 339 Friday to 314 Monday, according to Public Health France), but Anne Hidalgo also justifies her request by the fact that Paris “is a very dense ”.
Reopening green spaces would thus satisfy the "needs of Parisians" in this period when travel is no longer limited and businesses can reopen, even in the red zone.
Wearing a mandatory mask
This proposal would nevertheless be accompanied by the wearing of the mandatory mask, underlines the mayor of Paris. Anne Hidalgo also takes the opportunity to reiterate her wish that this measure be applied to all the streets of the capital, as Christian Estrosi also wants in Nice. But the government does not plan to generalize the wearing of the compulsory mask in the street and a local elected representative cannot decide it alone.
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In Paris, if the parks and gardens reopen, it will also be necessary to ensure that the gathering scenes, such as those of Monday evening on the banks of the Seine and the Saint-Martin canal, are not repeated. Dozens of people had gathered there without respecting the rules of physical distancing, leading the police to evacuate them and the prefect of police to ban alcohol consumption from this Tuesday.
VIDEO. Deconfinement in Paris: the Canal Saint-Martin evacuated by the police
