Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, France officially entered a state of health emergency on Tuesday after publication of a law in the Official Journal . This text frames confinement and other measures to restrict freedoms.
At the end of four days of work in select committee, the Parliament adopted Sunday this text "of urgency to face the epidemic of Covid-19". It provides for this new regime of "state of health emergency", on the model of the state of emergency provided for by a law of 1955, and activated after the attacks of 2015. Several parliamentarians on the right as on the left criticized "broad" restrictions on freedoms and "colossal power" granted to the government, in the face of the coronavirus which has killed at least 860 people in France.
Up to 3,700 euros fine
The new emergency regime provides for measures restricting the freedom to come and go, to meet and to undertake. The violation of the confinement rules is punished with a fine of 135 euros, 1,500 euros in the event of recidivism "within 15 days" and in the case of "four violations within thirty days", the offense is "punished with 3,700 euros a fine and a maximum of six months in prison ”.
Specifically for the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, a state of health emergency is declared for a period of two months from the entry into force of the law. Its extension beyond can only be authorized by a new law. And it can be terminated before two months by decree in the Council of Ministers.
The National Assembly and the Senate will be informed "without delay" of the measures taken during the state of emergency. Emmanuel Macron imposed that the displacements of the French be "strongly reduced for at least 15 days" in order to "limit contacts as much as possible" and fight against the expansion of the coronavirus.
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