A young man arrested four times in less than a month for violating the curfew was sentenced to three months in prison, AFP learned Thursday March 11 from the prosecutor of Béziers (Hérault), Raphaël Balland.
To read also: "It screams all night": residents of the north-east of Paris exasperated by the non-respect of the curfew
The 25-year-old man, who was in a car in Agde (Hérault) after the time of the curfew imposed in France for several months due to the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, was arrested by the police and taken into custody on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Béziers prosecutor.
"
He had given the police fanciful explanations even though he had already been fined three times during February and March 2021 for violating the curfew
," adds the prosecution.
The young man, already convicted several times for facts of another nature, was tried in immediate appearance on Wednesday and sentenced to three months in prison with a committal warrant.
In its press release, the prosecution ensures that it "will
continue to be firm against people who have decided to deliberately and repeatedly violate the health rules intended to fight the pandemic
".
The offense of repeating more than three times within 30 days of the violation of a ban or an obligation imposed within the framework of the state of health emergency carries the maximum penalty of 6 months of imprisonment. , 3750 euros fine and three years of suspension of the driving license.
Established at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the state of health emergency was extended until June 1 in a final vote in the National Assembly in February, despite opposition from almost all deputies outside the majority, denouncing in particular an "
authoritarian drift
".