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Parisians go green ... without skidding this time

2020-05-23T18:45:15.043Z


Respected distances, collected waste ... At the Invalides as in the Bois de Boulogne, the message seems to have been passed on after the excesses of these


“The police simply came to remind us to respect the 1.50 m distance, this is normal. Despite the threats of rain, we continued our picnic, anticipating that there would be few people. ”

For these five friends installed in the middle of a lawn on the Esplanade des Invalides, astonishing theater with a giant and crowded aperitif that the police had to evacuate last Wednesday evening, this 2nd weekend of deconfinemen t was also the occasion to open champagne to the green, even without leaving the capital. "It's my birthday, I didn't even know this morning that I was going to see the friends!" "Smiles Matthieu, the birthday of the day, to whom his wife and his buddies offered this surprise.

Friends but also careful and respectful of the rules. Between them no hugs but the now running elbow to elbow, and to each his own little living space. And zero waste either. "We have the boxes and we win everything," confirms one of the young women. On each side of the large lawns facing the Invalides, a police van is enough to dissuade those who would like to replay the crowded scene on Wednesday, and pairs of officials pay courtesy visits to the picnickers. Obviously the message has passed, the walkers of the day are not rebels.

Esplanade des Invalides (7th) Saturday. LP / Elodie Soulié  

Little or no police on the other hand around the Bois de Boulogne lake (16th century), but there too, the many walkers are rather wise. Groups of friends, - rarely more than 4 or 5 people -, families, couples, solitary joggers, dog walkers ... "The advantage of Wood is that there is room for everyone without stepping on it, "smiles Brandon, 27, who came to meet his friends Juliette and Paul. The latter traveled from Evreux (Eure) to finally see his Parisian friends, the space for a lunch on the grass. "As the parks and gardens are always closed, there are people all week long, but we are far from what we saw on the banks of the Seine!" Insists the young man. It felt like a crowd of tourists, when there are not even tourists! All this people, it does not envy, "agree the three friends, who picnic and" pack everything ". Around them, the trash cans are already overflowing, and this obviously does not date from the morning. "We have not seen a pickup service," they note.

Bois de Boulogne (XVIth) Saturday./ LP / Elodie Soulié  

"All these people who imagine that the epidemic is over, it's dangerous"

A little further, Mathilda, Clara and Laetitia pick their chips near a tree. These 14 and 15 year-old high school girls meet for the first time, "we chose on purpose a day when people might have left, since it is a bridge". The images of the giant aperitifs shocked them, no way for them to play the go-to-war. "All these people who imagine that the epidemic is over, it's dangerous, I don't want us to have to confine ourselves again," repeats Mathilda. All three have their masks in their bags.

Near the lake, a couple and their little boy nibble while looking at the water. "Space, ducks, it was the mission of the day," smiles the mother. As long as the gardens are closed, it is very hard for the children, so we come to get some green here ”. This family may soon be able to find municipal parks, if we believe the step forward made by the Prime Minister, in a letter to the mayor of Paris that Le Parisien revealed on Friday: Édouard Philippe indeed emphasizes that the situation could evolve "in one of the next phases of deconfinement and if three conditions are met". The reopening of the gardens will depend in particular on health developments and the establishment of strict rules, including the ban on groups of more than 10 people.

Bois de Boulogne (16th century) Saturday. LP / Elodie Soulié  

12 PV ONLY IN FONTAINEBLEAU FOREST

On the other hand in Ile-de-France, walkers also seem to have been more reasonable there than last weekend or Thursday of the Ascension. As in the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne where, even if there were people this Saturday, everything seems to have gone well. The gendarmes raised 12 PV against 300 on Ascension Thursday! "Motorists parked in the parking lots and when they were full, they were directed to parking lots where there was room," comments the deputy chief of the Fontainebleau gendarmerie company. Twelve gendarmes were deployed in the sector this Saturday. They will be more numerous this Sunday. It is true that the weather forecast announces a sunnier weather than this Saturday.

Source: leparis

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