" Hello sir!
Can you put your mask back on, please?
"" You don't have a derogatory certificate, madam?
The PV is 135 euros.
"" It's 6:20 pm and you continue to serve customers?
"
This Saturday, at the legal curfew time set at 6 p.m., for which Prime Minister Jean Castex asked this Friday for reinforced health checks, the deputy central commissioner of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, Pierre-Yves Destombes, and his teams surveyed rue Bobillot and the Butte-aux-Cailles sector.
At the foot of the gigantic Italy 2 shopping center, which, with its 56,000 square meters, will close its doors this Sunday.
Only food stores will be able to continue to receive customers.
Pedestrians, traders, motorists, taxis, VTCs, cyclists ... The patrol leaves nothing to chance.
"We were all afraid of a new confinement"
This young couple went about it a bit late, to pick up their order in a kebab on rue Bobillot.
It is nearly 6:30 p.m., and without a certificate, they do not cut the fine.
The restaurateur, who is only authorized to serve delivery people until 10 p.m., will be quit for a call to order.
“I find it normal to check,” assures a 30-year-old who works in events, and presents with a smile a certificate in due form and his identity document.
We were all afraid of a new confinement, it's a lesser evil.
"
"I live close by"
It is 6:45 p.m., the streets are gradually emptying.
Here and there, passers-by quickly turn back at the sight of the police.
This fifty-something did not go quickly enough: "You have neither mask nor certificate", notes an official.
But the man brandishes a medical certificate: wearing a mask is not recommended: "I'm going home, I live close by", he lets go a bit annoyed.
He will get away without a ticket: "We judge on a case-by-case basis," said a police officer.
He is a person who obviously has health problems.
"
A couple, their arms laden with parcels, strolling quietly without a certificate when the curfew time has passed, will not have benefited from the same indulgence: "We are on the way, on our way home", they grumble.
Nothing works.
HP drops.
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In the coming days, health checks will continue in the streets of the capital.
But also in shops where the attendance gauge must be respected.
This Saturday, the Paris police headquarters announced that it was checking on average between 300 and 400 establishments open to the public every day.
Since January 1, 34 Parisian shops have been closed for a period of two weeks, including eight supermarkets, for non-compliance with the curfew or for failure to respect the wearing of masks.
In addition, in recent days, more marked action has been taken to detect and sanction “illegal” restaurants discreetly welcoming customers who consume on the spot, for lunch or dinner.
On Thursday and Friday, 24 of these establishments in total were detected.
Debriefings have been established and an administrative closure will be notified to everyone.
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Finally, on Friday evening, in the 11th arrondissement, seven businesses that remained open during the curfew were closed immediately.
The shopping centers closed in Paris from this Sunday are the Forum des Halles, Italie 2, the south building of the Beaugrenelle center, the Montparnasse shopping center, Vill'up, the BHV Marais, the Galeries Lafayette, the Printemps Haussmann and Le Bon Market.