Gone are the days of pedagogy… Here comes the time of verbalizations.
After the request made this Monday by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin to all the prefects, asking them to strengthen containment controls, operations were immediately launched in the capital.
Severity is the order of the day
This Wednesday evening, from 5.30 p.m., a device of some 130 police officers took over the sectors of Barbès, Chapelle, Marx-Dormoy (18th century), under the command of the commissioner of the 11th arrondissement, Ludovic Giral: “we are facing a peak exponential contamination: today, in Paris, 90% of intensive care beds are occupied by patients suffering from Covid 19, which is why we are working day and night to send a message of firmness.
Especially since there are more and more festive gatherings, in apartments rented for this purpose, which are real health bombs.
Each person who contravenes the instructions will now be fined… And the bill can quickly become very steep ”.
€ 135, € 200 in the event of a repeat offense within two weeks.
And up to € 3,750 if you get caught three times a month.
Rue Marx-Dormoy, in this very popular sector of the 18th century, the faces were (almost) all masked this Wednesday evening, but few valid certificates were in hand.
And the streets of the district welcomed the usual crowd.
“Lots of people go out day and night to go for a walk.
It's irresponsible, growls a passerby who has presented a derogatory certificate in due form.
I try to be reasonable: I go out to work, and do some shopping, like this evening ”.
A little further on, a man quickly adjusts his mask on his nose, at the sight of the police, and feverishly searches in an envelope full of certificates ... But none mentions the correct date.
It was also impossible to get hold of an identity document.
"I was sure I had it all though," he stammers.
"I'm going to have to give you a ticket," the police officer tells him.
Always good excuses
A little further on, Place de la Chapelle, a young man comes face to face with a patrol, as he comes out of a fast food restaurant, and holds out his phone to present a certificate.
"But it is an authorization for professional travel," he hears himself retort.
You are not working there!
Do you know that we are in confinement?
".
Equipped with a big shopping bag, another passer-by claims to “get out of work”.
But cannot present any certificate.
“Frankly, I usually always have it with me.
I understand, but it's expensive, all the same… ”.
While Prime Minister Jean Castex is due to speak on Thursday, on the evolution of the epidemic situation and containment, after a new defense council dedicated to Covid, controls are increasing.
Tuesday, in the areas of Gare de l'Est and rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis (Xe), 1,325 people were checked and 128 of them were fined for not wearing a mask or failing to 'certificate.
Already 20,000 verbalizations in Ile-de-France
At the Ministry of the Interior we are advancing, since the entry into force of the new confinement on October 29, 65,000 verbalizations including 20,000 in the eight departments of Ile-de-France.
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“The reinforced, fixed and dynamic checkpoints give us visibility that is conducive to dissuading those who still show too much recklessness,” concludes Commissioner Giral.