Several dozen motorists, coming from one of the 16 reconfigured French departments, were fined this weekend by the soldiers of the Departmental Gendarmerie Group of Charente-Maritime (GGD 17) for non-compliance with the restriction rules in force, announced Monday March 22 on social networks the gendarmerie of Charente-Maritime.
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The gendarmerie called for the “
responsibility of everyone, so that the department of Charente-Maritime is not concerned, in turn, by more stringent measures.
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If many tourists re-defined have canceled their stays in the region, some French people have still tried to go to Charente-Maritime, reports
France Bleu
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despite the ban on inter-regional travel.
Motorists were stopped and fined during checks carried out on the islands of Ré and Oléron, as well as at the A10 toll booth in Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
They had to pay a fine of 135 euros.
Questioned by
France Bleu
, Stéphane Villain, president of Charentes tourisme and mayor of Châtelaillon-Plage, near La Rochelle, calls on the authorities not to issue fines to the French coming to his region: “
Those who left within the legal dates, c ' that is to say on Friday, welcome to our home!
And then for those who have fallen through the cracks, welcome too!
It is in our interest to welcome them in the best possible conditions, because they are the ones who make our economy work.
That we be lenient, it seems to me common sense.
Simply, that they respect the barrier gestures, and I am sure that this will not increase the rates of spread of the virus in the region.
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According to the latest figures from Public Health France arrested on Saturday March 20, Charente-Maritime has an incidence rate of 149 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants ... far from the 551 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of the capital.
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