Easter weekend: why the government plays tolerance on journeys

Tuesday, Gérald Darmanin warned: in view of the Easter weekend, road checks would be intensified to enforce "the 10 km rule".

"It is a question of underlining the importance during this weekend at high risks not to leave its territory", insisted the Minister of the Interior.

But that was before.

Because announcing, the next day, the extension of the new version of confinement to the whole of France, Emmanuel Macron specifies: "Our fellow citizens who wish to change region to go to isolate themselves will be able to do so during this Easter weekend.

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“Roughly speaking, it's: get out of the way!

»Commented a familiar of the executive.

A measure of "common sense", "logistics", we defend in high places.

"Before freezing, we leave everyone the opportunity to reorganize," argues Matignon.

And in particular the parents subjected to a new puzzle, while the schools close for a week, before fifteen days of vacation turned upside down because unified all zones combined, from April 12 to 25.

Without counting, after the quack of Thursday evening and a back-pedaling on Friday, the uncertainty which hovered over the childminders finally authorized to practice.

Make this re-containment more acceptable

"For the Easter weekend, Monday included, because a certain number of families will want to drop off their children with grandparents, for example, we apply a tolerance so that these legitimate trips can be made" , advance the Minister in charge of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, on Friday morning, on Europe 1. A “specific” exemption for families with children, he said.

Or to those who want to "change region to confine themselves".

This explicit formula is a first.

“It is also to assume the fact that people will confine themselves elsewhere than in their home, agrees a minister.

This factually does not change anything from an epidemiological point of view, and it saves people the stress of replaying

in the middle of the night.

In the background, the eternal question of the acceptability and sustainability of measures.

Even though confining oneself to green is not given to everyone.

“It is clear that there are two speeds, or even more.

Not everyone experiences the same confinement, ”recalls a Walker.

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Contradictory with the ban on interregional travel and the invitations to limit “mixing”?

“All of France is affected in a homogeneous manner.

There is no longer any region that is spared ", it is argued at the Ministry of Health, while recalling that" at Christmas, relying on the responsibility of the French worked very well ".

And it is, already warns an adviser to the executive "of a one shot".

"If we allowed it for holidays, weekends or other, we would dangerously multiply trips, insists the same.

There, it is if people leave this weekend, it is to stay there.

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"We can't say it, but ..."

At the risk of confusion, as this Easter weekend begins.

However, concerning these festivals, the line has not changed.

"It's not: You can go and have your family meals," we hammer at Matignon.

"Going to celebrate Easter is not a derogatory reason", abounds Djebbari.

Within the executive, however, sprains are expected.

A ministerial adviser even evokes "the symbolic load of certain dates, with which it is necessary to know how to combine".

“Of course, it's a time of family meals, of children's deposits, one of the only bridges.

We must not either constantly hit people, "slips a minister.

In short, another adviser blows, "we cannot say it, but everyone has understood that we are starting a new phase on Monday".