The Belgian border is not closed, but since Friday 4 p.m., restrictive measures have been put in place.
Details should be given shortly on the status of cross-border workers.
For now, they can go to work, go shopping or visit family, as long as the trips are short.
No need to go through quarantine, but they will have to present proof.
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Fearing a definitive closure, the Northerners therefore went en masse to Belgium, Thursday and Friday, to make their purchases, mainly tobacco.
Thus at Mont Noir, whose shopping street is cut off by the border, the flow is incessant on this Friday morning.
On one side of the main street, tobacco shops, games room, cafes and restaurants… Belgian.
On the other hand, the French Café announces nationality.
One sidewalk in Belgium, the other in France, this little corner of Flanders has the particularity of being at the heart of questions
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