Emmanuel Macron regretted this Thursday that "too many" French people continue to "take lightly" the confinement instructions taken to fight against the coronavirus, which "are not perfectly respected".
"When I see that people continue to go to the park, to get together, to go to the beach or to rush in the open markets, it is that they did not understand the messages" passed by the authorities , the head of state told journalists on the sidelines of a visit to the Institut Pasteur in Paris. "It is not perfectly respected today" and "we have a lot of our fellow citizens who still take this lightly," he added.
Negligence and lightness?
Some "do not want to realize or do not realize that it is both for them and to protect his loved ones" that these travel restriction measures were announced Monday evening. “We have to empower. To be a citizen is that, "he continued. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe also deplored "the negligence, the lightness, the carelessness that we sometimes still see in our streets". They "are, and I weigh my words, irresponsible and must give way to a full awareness of the responsibility of each and every one of us," he added before the Senate.
In the morning, the Minister of the Interior castigated those "who underestimate the risk" and "who think they are modern heroes to break the rule even though they are fools".
The weather is fine
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.
Emmanuel Macron explained why he had not used, in his speech on Monday evening, the word "confinement" which was expected. "It is a word that people do not understand" because some believe "that we are going to caulk everything, that we can no longer go out". "I explained in simple words the reality of what we do", changing "sociability" but without "saying stop it all".
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