Do these tweets pointing to a loosening in containment tell the truth?

• Photos of impressive traffic jams on motorways have been circulating on social networks since this weekend, suggesting that the French have gone on vacation during the school holidays.
• Internet users have bounced back with humor to these photos by posting other crazy images.
• An increase in road traffic has been noted in recent days, but the highways are well deserted, as shown by other photos, serious this time.

"Irresponsible behavior of Parisians: here is Porte Maillot and Orly last night, and Deauville today. "Since this weekend, caricatured photos of traffic jams have been circulating on social networks, ironic about the fact that the inhabitants of the capital, carried by the mild temperatures and the beginning of the school holidays in zone C (which groups together Ile-de-France and Occitanie academies), decided to bypass the confinement instructions due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Irresponsible behavior of Parisians: here is the swimsuit door and Orly last night, and Deauville today. Photos taken by my cousin who works in the media. pic.twitter.com/GRLuXMYBtx

Another internet user ironically claimed that this same photo showed the A7 motorway at Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône), while a Twitter user published an aerial view supposedly taken on the Bandol toll booth ( Var).

The A7 motorway at Aubagne ... Our species is definitely lost😿😿😿 pic.twitter.com/zrkqa3xWQm

"Very concretely, we do not go on vacation during the confinement period", reminded the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, on LCI, from Wednesday, April 1.

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The photo of the highway attributed to Porte Maillot or Aubagne is often mistakenly associated with the monstrous 100 km traffic jam in Beijing, China, which lasted eleven days in August 2010. In reality, it is a montage made from an image of highway 405 in Los Angeles, California. The original image is published on the hoaxorfact.com website. It was tampered with to double the width of the highway and add lines of cars. The original photograph was taken by Philip Greenspun in 1998.

For its part, the pseudo-photo of the Bandol toll is indeed a photo of Beijing's historic traffic jam in 2010, as we find in a video of the time on francetvinfo.fr. As for the pictures of Orly and Deauville, they represent the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and a beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Photos of empty highways

Posted for humorous purposes, do these pictures reflect a reality? Admittedly, maps revealed yesterday by Le Journal du Dimanche do suggest an increase in travel on French roads over the past week. These cards were produced from mobile phone data.

EXCLUSIVE. Respect for confinement: the French relax. Comparison of trips by department between March 26 and April 2 http://t.co/t9HT8esEHw pic.twitter.com/CR4T4DIsF5

But no large-scale traffic jams were detected on French highways, and many Internet users also posted images of empty roads:

A13 Paris-Caen, zero car toll this Saturday.

History, not a cat on the Normandy highway, this Saturday of departure on vacation! (Collector) .https: //t.co/rlaYzVPJZo

Not many people on the highway ... # confinementjour18 pic.twitter.com/mV1AhlMOsv

Concerning the Paris region, the Sytadin site, which gives the state of direct road traffic in Ile-de-France, reported only one kilometer of traffic jam, Friday at 5.30 p.m., in Ile-de-France, against about 325 km usually.

In an interview with 20 Minutes , the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, said that, over the weekend, the police had still made 1.4 million controls of travel certificates and proceeded to nearly 67,000 reports. He promises that the government will "maintain vigilance throughout the school vacation period".

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