Containment also applies to children. Since Tuesday noon, the government has decreed travel restriction measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. Unless there is a special reason, the French are invited to stay at home. Except that the deposit is sometimes difficult to pass despite the reinforced police checks and the amount of the ticket, raised to 135 euros. The mayors of certain municipalities have therefore decided to strike hard and introduce a curfew.
In the North, it was in Hautmont that the first measures were taken to prohibit minors from going out at night under any pretext whatsoever. Thus, from Saturday to April 30, unaccompanied persons under the age of 18 must not leave their homes between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
In the event of an offense, the parents of the minor will be issued a report of 135 euros. To justify his decision, the mayor of Haumont, Joël Wilmotte, ensures that there has been an “upsurge of gatherings of minors in public places” giving rise to “numerous disturbances of public order on certain points of the municipal territory. "
For minors and sometimes even adults
The mayor of Jeumont, Benjamin Saint-Huile, also made the decision to prohibit minors from going out at night. "People under the age of 18 will no longer be able to move around the city from 7 p.m. and they will be subject to charges," he said. The elected official regrets, however, that the initiative did not come from above: “I hope that the government will take a more drastic decision […] because I myself do not have the legal possibility of putting up a cover - fire for everyone, "he explains. In fact, according to the text of the government decree imposing travel restrictions, only “the representative of the State in the department is empowered to adopt more restrictive measures. "
For the city of Arras, in Pas-de-Calais, the legal question between minors and adults does not arise. Frédéric Leturque, the mayor of the commune, issued a decree prohibiting the movement of people between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. It entered into force on Saturday and its validity runs until March 31. According to the town hall, it was notably testimonies from residents who noted breaches of the confinement rules that motivated the elected official to take this decision.
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- Coronavirus
- Containment
- Health
- epidemic
- Curfew