Monday, the option of weekend confinement in Île-de-France was clearly on the table.
This measure was notably defended by the prefects of the departments, despite the hostility of some of the local elected officials.
Ultimately, the 13 million Ile-de-France residents will be spared.
The decision was taken Wednesday morning, during a Health Defense Council which aimed to define new measures to fight the epidemic in the twenty departments placed
"under surveillance
".
"We try to avoid the most stringent health measures as much as possible
,
"
a government source
confirms to
Le Figaro
.
New restrictions will however be detailed Thursday, during a press conference by Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
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At this time, the great elected representatives of Ile-de-France have still not been officially informed of the decision of the executive.
Sunday, on the set of the "Grand Jury" RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, the ex-LR president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, said she wanted to
"do everything to avoid confinement"
- in whatever form either - but assured that it would not
"oppose"
measures which would be
"justified"
.
The PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, for her part estimated on Monday that the curfew at 6 p.m. on weekdays combined with confinement on weekends was a measure
"difficult, hard, even inhuman" ...
After having itself caused an uproar this weekend by asking, through the voice of its first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, a strict confinement of three weeks.
