Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday an
"increase of more than 30%"
in controls since Saturday concerning compliance with the curfew at 6 p.m., during a trip to the Yvelines to supervise operations law enforcement.
According to the minister,
"the French must know that after 6 pm, they have a great chance of being checked and therefore fined"
.
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As early as Friday evening, following Jean Castex's speech, Gérald Darmanin had sent a telegram to the prefects asking them to
"take without delay all measures likely to ensure very strict compliance with these new rules"
(on extra EU travel prohibited unless there is an overriding reason, and intra-EU with 72h00 PCR test including by land).
Sunday, Gérald Darmanin spoke of
"particularly firm instructions to apply this curfew at 6 p.m. and also to fight against stores that open with gauges too different from those requested by the government, namely 8m2 per person"
, he said at the Buchelay toll barrier on the A13, where checks, carried out by police and gendarmes, caused major traffic jams in the province-Paris direction.
"6000 verbalizations"
Saturday, there were according to Gerald Darmanin,
"65,000 checks that were carried out for 6000 verbalizations"
, as well as
"almost 400 establishments fined for gauges that were not kept sanitary"
.
"The counterpart of not doing confinement despite the health difficulties that we are experiencing is the request of the Prime Minister to be able to be very strict on the rules, in particular the curfew"
, he said recalled.
For the Minister of the Interior,
“being able to check these certificates is really a priority that
(he)
gave to the prefects, the gendarmes and the police.
In this very particular period of the health crisis, we can clearly see that it is a race against time to prevent the spread of this virus, ”
he continued.