The village of Cornillon-Confoux filed an appeal for interim relief on Tuesday, October 20 against the curfew from 9 p.m. instituted by the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône throughout the metropolis of Aix-Marseille, said the mayor from the municipality to AFP.
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We have filed this appeal to request the suspension of this prefectural decree and for the prefect to take up a new decree taking into account the local Covid-19 figures
", explained Daniel Gagnon, stressing that no case of coronavirus has occurred. was currently listed in his village of 1,400 inhabitants.
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Nobody alerted us to the slightest case of Covid at home, whether it was the village doctor, the departmental emergency services or even the hospital of Salon-de-Provence on which we depend,
" said the mayor of the commune, the first in the department to have filed such an appeal.
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It is for our two restaurants that we are doing this, they are in agony
", insisted Mr. Gagnon to AFP.
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If the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis is in a maximum alert zone in the face of Covid-19, the situation is far from being tense in the 90 municipalities of Bouches-du-Rhône that it encompasses and in particular in these dozens of villages almost spared from the new coronavirus.
Two towns in the metropolis, located in Var and Vaucluse, are not affected by the order of the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône.
According to Daniel Gagnon, several other municipalities are preparing to file recourse identical to his, so that they too can obtain the reopening of their restaurants in the evening.
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