“Above all, no slacking off!
“The start of the holidays should not result in less respect for anti-Covid health rules.
This is the message of firmness that the Paris police headquarters posted this Friday evening, by increasing the checks on the departure route.
From 6 p.m., no less than 800 police officers, gendarmes and highway CRS were mobilized on the roads, tolls, in stations but also on the public highway to check the reasons for the movements of users still outside after the cover-up. fire.
At the southern exit of the capital, at the Porte d'Orléans, it is right in the middle of the outer ring road that a large “control area” has been set up on the central lane just before the exit to the A6a.
Fluorescent chasuble on the back, about thirty officials stop motorists in “clusters” of three vehicles.
"I find that rather reassuring"
Almost 40 minutes after the start of the curfew, the flow of vehicles is still dense but still surprisingly fluid for a Friday evening of great departures.
“Good evening, national police.
Vehicle papers and travel certificates please… ”In the middle of traffic, checks are linked at a steady pace.
“We check that people have a valid reason for travel.
I'm going on vacation
is not!
», Recalls an official between two cars.
At the beginning of the evening, there are very few "holidaymakers" leaving on the ring road.
Controlled motorists or motorcyclists are almost exclusively commuters returning home after work… And all are in order.
A young woman, alone in her small city-dweller registered in the Yvelines, presents an "employer certificate" with the stamp of the bakery where she works.
A young man shows the QR code of his certificate on his cell phone and leaves immediately.
Two Seine-et-Marne have ticked the “medical reason” box on the paper they present to the police.
“Our father was hospitalized.
We come back from the hospital, ”explains the driver, not surprised by this large-scale check.
“I find that quite normal.
And even rather reassuring, ”she says, mask on the face.
"We carry out checks every evening and everywhere in the capital"
At 7:30 p.m., more than an hour and a half after the start of the operation, the "counter" at PV only displayed a single fine of 135 euros (the rate for the first violation of the curfew).
"He was a craftsman who was returning from a site but without a valid certificate," explains the official who issued a verbal statement.
"He was with his apprentice who should theoretically also be verbalized ... but we know how to use discernment," he adds.
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“The system put in place this Friday evening is only exceptional in terms of its scale.
We carry out checks, static or mobile, every evening and everywhere in the capital ”, concludes Jean-Sébastien Rosadoni, the commissioner of the DOPC (Directorate of public order and traffic) who supervises the device of the door. 'Orleans.
Behind him, motorists continue to be stopped in the middle of the ring road ... and to leave one to two minutes later.