Anne Hidalgo does not want to take half measures.
The mayor (PS) of Paris intends to ask the prefect for confinement of the capital for three weeks.
This is in any case what his first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire declared, this Thursday evening, on France Info.
According to him, "the curfew, which looks like a de facto semi-confinement, is not enough to settle the curve".
The incidence rate, corresponding to the number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past week, now reaches 304 in Paris, against 207 on average for the rest of France.
It was 291 earlier this week.
Crowds last weekend
“Shouldn't we make a little more effort to then regain oxygen and a more normal life, rather than staying in these semi-range measures, which are extremely restrictive without being effective?
»Asked Emmanuel Grégoire again.
His words follow a weekend where Parisians ignored many health rules, taking advantage of pleasant weather to gather outside.
So much so that the police headquarters decided on Monday to ban alcohol consumption in two streets of the capital, threatening to expand the system if necessary.
“We cannot force ourselves to live in a semi-prison for months yet, we must now make courageous decisions.
It is the only solution ”, added the right arm of Anne Hidalgo.
Proposals made to the prefect very quickly
The chosen one does not even want to hear about a confinement on weekends only, as decided in the agglomeration of Dunkirk as well as on the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes.
A measure here again "very restrictive and not very effective".
At the Town Hall, we therefore work rather on a three-week confinement, to lead to a resumption of very supervised life.
Other proposals will be made to the prefect.
"Make telework compulsory, measures targeted at the government ..." enumerated Emmanuel Grégoire, without going into detail.
Without saying, either, what confinement it could be.
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With a school closure or not?
Anne Hidalgo's position will be transmitted to the prefect on Wednesday at the latest, perhaps sooner if the situation requires it.
“Everything is on the table”, we answered this Thursday evening at the Town Hall.