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Coronavirus and Easter holidays: "The watchword is no tourist in the South!"

2020-04-04T18:39:40.645Z


On this first weekend of the Easter holidays for zone C, the Marseille police prefect, Emmanuel Barbe, supervised the co


"Hello, do you have your special certificate?" »Behind the barriers of the Lançon-Provence toll booth on the A7 motorway towards Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Mediterranean, the gendarmes were in force this Saturday to check that holidaymakers from zone C (academies de Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles) had not ventured on the roads towards the deep blue, in the midst of a coronavirus crisis.

Faced with very poor traffic from trucks and a few individual vehicles, the soldiers were able to verify that most of the motorists checked were in order. Eight hundred and forty-four police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized in the Bouches-du-Rhône all weekend on roads and highways, but also in TGV stations and at Marseille-Provence airport to "complete all entrances ”according to the slogan of the prefect of police Emmanuel Barbe. Who will be this Sunday on the coast to verify that no tourist has managed to cross the cracks.

"Where we are confined, we remain so"

“There is no vacation. Where we are confined, we remain so. We have locked access to the department to people who would like to take a vacation here or join their second home. The watchword is: no tourists in the South! We must not change regions, which unbalances the health plan, ”said the prefect this Saturday by attending the checks, without mask and gloves, like the gendarmes. “Even if there was blue on the whole route, it is reassuring to see that the highway is almost empty and that there are very few reports, that is to say that they are people who have the right to move around who are there, ”continues Emmanuel Barbe.

"I understand that they control, even if the confinement is difficult, estimates Bérénice after having presented papers and certificate. I go back and forth between Carpentras and La Ciotat to bring my son back to his father. Everything is a little more complicated, but I am in good standing. "

Another driver says why he got behind the wheel. "We have to be able to go to work if we want the economy to turn around a bit", justifies this Marseille architect returning from a site in the Vaucluse. He will not receive a PV, despite the absence of a daily work certificate. “We don't verbalize people in good faith, we know how to make a difference. There, it just misses a paper ”, confirms a gendarme. "Most people are in good standing, that's what counts," he says.

Seasonal rentals prohibited in Paca

To avoid the arrival of tourists despite the controls, all the departments of the Paca region took orders this Saturday to prohibit seasonal rentals until April 15.

Next week, the start of the holidays in zone B (academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg), the same system will be installed, but in the other direction, to prevent the Marseillais from leaving to join their second homes or their rentals. Especially since in the city of Marseille, the number of tickets for violation of health regulations has already increased in recent days with the arrival of good weather.

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"We will make sure that the Marseillais do not go to the other departments," confirms the prefect of police. It is a major health issue. "

Source: leparis

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