While 800 police and gendarmes were deployed throughout the Île-de-France region on Friday evening to ensure proper compliance with the curfew, control operations continued throughout the weekend.
Thus, the prefecture of police announced this Sunday, February 7 on Twitter to have drawn up 113 verbalizations in the night of Saturday to Sunday for illegal gatherings in bars and a party gathering more than sixty people.
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Four individuals, suspected of being the managers and organizers of the evening, were also arrested, said the prefecture.
The offenses were noted in the 19th arrondissement of the capital, in Bondy, Orly or even Chennevières-sur-Marne.
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In Sarrebourg, Moselle, two people were also placed in police custody this Sunday for the organization of a clandestine party on Saturday evening.
An evening which would have gathered in a lodging nearly fifty people, according to our colleagues from the
Republican Lorrain.
Warned by an anonymous call, the police noted on the property of several hectares, the presence of 25 vehicles.
With the help of police officers from Metz and Sarreguemines police stations, they set up a system to monitor the lodge and wait for the participants to leave.
Shortly after 6 o'clock, a first party animal, drunk, is arrested at the wheel of his vehicle.
He was immediately taken into custody at the Sarrebourg police station.
Be firm
It was finally a check later in the morning that allowed police officers to issue 25 other revelers, reports the regional daily.
They were all notified of a fine of € 135 for participating in a meeting banned in the context of the health crisis.
Some of the participants would nevertheless have managed to escape the control system.
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The organizer, 25 years old and domiciled in the Strasbourg region, was for his part identified and placed in police custody.
The owner of the premises, who was not informed of the holding of this evening, will be auditioned at the police station, specifies
Le Républicain Lorrain.
No more pedagogy and flexibility, the police were instructed this weekend to be firm, in other words, to sanction each time an infringement of the health instructions in force was noted.
This is what
Damien Vallot, the commissioner of the 15th arrondissement of Paris,
explained to
Le Figaro
on Friday
.
“
The Minister of the Interior wanted us to strengthen controls throughout the country.
From 6 pm to 6 am, you have to be at home
, ”he said.
And to add that “
we are there to ensure that the law is the same for all and to make our contribution to the collective mobilization.
If people do not have a certificate with a valid reason, they can be fined ”.