Usually power worries when clouds are gathering on the horizon.
There it is the reverse.
Sunset increasingly late coupled with a spring weather with sun and mildness.
The ideal cocktail for the French to release both the pressure and their vigilance.
“It will be 19 degrees in Paris on Saturday and Sunday and 20 degrees on the French Riviera!
At 6.30 pm it will be daylight, it will start to annoy people a little bit ”, worries a leading minister.
The subject is taken very seriously.
Gérald Darmanin's office identified the problem at the end of last week.
The Minister of the Interior passed instructions in the wake of the Paris police prefect as well as the directors general of the national police and gendarmerie: strengthening of controls to enforce the curfew, in particular this weekend.
It's the spring-proof anti-Covid war.
"Yes, because we are in the risk zone until mid-March", alarms another member of the government who refers to the uncertainty that hangs over the English variant and the risk that it will spread suddenly exponentially.
The principle of this crisis is to force governments around the world to work under multiple constraints over which they have little or no control.
The weather is one of them.
To win "the war" against the virus, Emmanuel Macron needs the support of the French.
This is the famous “acceptability” without which it is impossible to enforce the multiple limitations on our individual freedoms.
Too bright a sun could be that little "nothing" that turns everything upside down.