The French do not stay long enough at home. This is what deplored, Thursday, Emmanuel Macron regretting that "too many" inhabitants continued to "take lightly" the containment measures taken to fight against the coronavirus, which "are not perfectly respected".
"When I see that people continue to go to the park, to the beach or to rush in the open markets", it is that "they did not understand the messages" passed by the authorities, said the chief of the State to journalists on the sidelines of a visit to the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
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"It is not perfectly respected today" and "we have a lot of our fellow citizens who still take this lightly," he added. Some "do not want to realize or do not realize that it is both for themselves and to protect his loved ones" that these travel restriction measures were announced on Monday evening. "We have to empower. Being a citizen is that," he continued.
Faced with this phenomenon, encouraged by sunny weather, the authorities on Thursday prohibited, with the issuing of prefectural orders, access to beaches throughout the Mediterranean arc, Corsica and many departments of the Atlantic coast. The quays of the Garonne have also been banned in Bordeaux.