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Covid-19: the mayor of Cabourg backpedal after announcing a reconfinement

2021-01-26T08:37:42.336Z


Tristan Duval said he misspoke and apologized. The mayor of Carbourg, Tristan Duval, retropedale this Tuesday, January 26 after announcing Monday in City Council the return of confinement as in March. Read also: Covid-19: the idea of ​​confinement of people at risk resurfaces Contacted by France Bleu Normandie, Tristan Duval apologized, explaining that he expressed himself poorly during the City Council. He would simply have wanted to warn c


The mayor of Carbourg, Tristan Duval, retropedale this Tuesday, January 26 after announcing Monday in City Council the return of confinement as in March.

Read also: Covid-19: the idea of ​​confinement of people at risk resurfaces

Contacted by France Bleu Normandie, Tristan Duval apologized, explaining that he expressed himself poorly during the City Council.

He would simply have wanted to warn colleagues of the possible scenarios for dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.

"

I should have specified that this decision was being considered and not to involve the prefecture,

" he told the regional daily.

On Twitter, the official account of the city of Carbourg formalized this backpedaling.

Tristan Duval also apologized to the prefect of Calvados.

During his speech in the City Council broadcast live on the Facebook page of the city of Carbourg, the mayor of the city involved the prefect of Calvados, Philippe Court, by mentioning a phone call during which the two men had exchanged on confinement "

quite hard

", with "

everything closed as in March, except schools

".

Monday evening, after the buzz of the video viewed more than 400,000 times, the prefecture of Calvados denied this information before the mayor of Carbourg backpedaled.

Source: lefigaro

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