“It is not according to the weather that we decide to go out or not, it is according to a fight. The risk is relaxation. The Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, was very clear on France Info, this Monday. Admittedly, he wanted to emphasize that " the French are among the whole world those who respect confinement the best . Information based on analysis provided to the entire Internet planet by Google, the American giant. We learn in particular that in France, attendance at places of leisure and consumption (shops, restaurants, cinemas, etc.) - closed since March 15 - fell by 88%. Similarly, frequentation of places of public transport (tram, metro, stations ...) fell by 87%.
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But the Beauvau host is well placed to know that numerous breaches of the confinement rule have, in spite of everything, been observed in recent days, particularly with the holiday period, the bright sun having undoubtedly influenced. In Paris, for example, an authority believes that " confinement is generally respected ", with however, according to this high official, " some places quite popular this weekend: Bois de Boulogne, Lake Saint-Mandé, La Villette and some shopping streets, like that of Montorgueil. Clearly: " There have been quite a few strollers and walkers ", deplores the interested party, which, according to him, is not reasonable. Everyone also remembers the huge line of cars on the ring road at the entrance to the ramp towards the Normandy motorway, this Saturday…
The police had already trained 480,000 PV since the start of containmentSame mixed signals sent by prefects in the regions. In Hauts-de-France, a certain civic-mindedness is observed, but problems remain on the Creil plateau and in the districts of Lille-Sud. A powerful local elected representative recalls that it was in Beauvais that a security assistant, Floriane, received a brick in the face and was severely injured, while trying to check the exit certificates of two people, last week. Also in Toulouse, in the Reynerie district, clashes took place last Thursday, against the police who came to carry out classic checks. The city's LR mayor, Jean-Luc Moudenc, even considered a curfew, deeming these overflows " unacceptable ". In Nîmes, we saw a lot of people descend this weekend from TGVs from Paris. The Unsa-Police union is also surprised that many holidaymakers have clearly been able to " pass through the controls ", by settling in Bayonne, for example.
Electronic control
Do we need to crack down more? Where to place the cursor? The prospect of using smartphones and their location system to fight the coronavirus is less and less taboo, in any case. As invasive as it is for privacy. The Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, also envisaged, Wednesday evening, at the National Assembly, that a mobile application, downloadable on a voluntary basis, could help to inform, if one has encountered a person affected by the virus. A kind of electronic control of the individual by the collective?
Already, companies are on the ranks to provide this service. Géo4cast, in particular, made headlines by creating the Covimoov "barometer". This tool uses geolocation data provided by different applications and thus shows that the two "photographs" of France, taken on March 26 and April 2, clearly show an increase in the movement of French people. This trend would affect, according to her, all the departments, but it would be a little more pronounced in the Southeast or the Arcachon basin.
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Christophe Castaner recalled, this Monday, that the police had already trained 480,000 PV since the beginning of the confinement. In total, more than 8.2 million checks were carried out, including nearly 1.4 million over the last three days, in an attempt to stem the pandemic.