As school holidays begin this weekend for certain regions, more than 160,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the roads. "An exceptional control system", for Laurent Nunez. They must carry out reinforced controls in order to dissuade the French from going on vacation in full confinement.
According to a new account given by the Secretary of State, 6.7 million checks on compliance with the containment measures were carried out by the police. These resulted in 406,000 reports. Wednesday, Christophe Castaner had firmly closed the door to the traditional big departures for the spring holidays and the big Easter weekend. Zone C, which brings together the academies of Ile-de-France and Occitania, is on school holidays from Friday.
Calls not to "ruin the collective effort"
"We don't go on vacation during the confinement period," said the minister. A message also hammered by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe Thursday evening. "There must be no departure on vacation," he said, "so that the start of the school holidays does not translate into journeys that would ruin the collective effort made for three weeks." "We will be extremely severe, there will be no possibility of departure," also warned Friday the prefect of police in Paris during a press point on a checkpoint at the gates of Paris.
"There will not only be the verbalizations (…) there will be an impossibility to get on the trains or to continue his journey by car if there are no justifications", he explained specifying that "8.277 civil servants and soldiers will be mobilized throughout the weekend to ensure these checks. ”
Tourist departments on alert
For its part, the National Gendarmerie affirms that approximately 60,000 soldiers will be mobilized to ensure the controls, and stresses that in Ile-de-France, seven squadrons of mobile gendarmerie and three helicopters are mobilized in reinforcement.
Among the tourist departments, Charente-Maritime - where the island of Ré, Oléron, Royan or La Rochelle is located - "urged tourist accommodation rental platforms to take all the necessary measures so that none seasonal rental that does not meet an imperative and duly justified professional reason does not take place until the end of confinement ”. In addition, controls will also be strengthened because major speeding tickets have increased by 16%, said Laurent Nuñez.
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