"Archaic"
,
"disrespectful"
... The confinement decreed for the next two weekends in the Alpes-Maritimes may be local, it is not enough for some elected Republicans (LR) from the west of department.
These unprecedented restrictions in France, which concern 63 municipalities on the coast from Menton to Théoule-sur-Mer, should, according to them, have targeted the city of Nice, where the Covid-19 outbreak is the most important.
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Echoing the weariness expressed by some residents, the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, rises on Facebook against a
"painful"
confinement
"which will further destroy our economy, our jobs, and our morale"
, without s '' support an
“organized and relevant health policy”
.
The elected representative regrets not having been listened to following consultations carried out last weekend by the prefect of the department, like the mayor of Antibes, Jean Leonetti, who deplored in
Nice-Matin
a measure "
archaic
”,“
by default
”,“
because we did not provide hospital and vaccination resources
”.
"Solidarity"
These reservations annoy the mayor of Nice, supporting government restrictions.
"How can you hold this speech when there are more than 500 (cases per 100,000 inhabitants) in your city (Antibes), that is to say three times more than the national average?"
, asked Tuesday on BFMTV-RMC Christian Estrosi, calling for
"solidarity"
between the hospitals of the department.
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In the fifth city of France, elected officials want to believe that the measures will dissuade tourists from going to the Côte d'Azur during the last two weekends of the school holidays.
"The public health imperative must dominate all the others"
, considers the deputy Éric Ciotti, favorable to a
"real closing of the borders"
.
Controls at the Italian border and at airports should be stepped up.
Loosen the vise
Anxious to loosen the grip, the mayors of 24 municipalities in the department including Antibes, grouped together in the Sophia Antipolis agglomeration community, asked the prefect, via a motion, to extend the possibility of walking from one hour to three hours. family on weekends - outings are only permitted within a radius of 5 kilometers.
Among them, the mayor of Villeneuve-Loubet, Lionnel Luca, blamed on Twitter the
"imperialism"
deemed
"disrespectful"
of
"elected Nice who set themselves up as givers of lessons
".
To justify these restrictions, which the executive could also apply to Dunkirk (North), the Minister of Health pointed out Monday a
"particularly worrying health situation in the Alpes-Maritimes"
, with 588 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the department ( up to 700 in Nice, against 190 on average nationwide).
Hospital services are
"close to saturation"
, said Romain Alexandre, representative of the regional health agency in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
The inhabitants of the Alpes-Maritimes coast are the first to experiment with local confinement in metropolitan France, until then limited to municipalities in Guyana and Mayotte.
Prelude to extended restrictions on February 5 to the entire French department of the Indian Ocean.