Gendarmes check containment measures at Forcalquier, in March 2020 (photo of illustration) - LOUAI BARAKAT / SIPA

The power of verbalization will be extended in the context of deconfinement, in particular to public transport agents, announced the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, this Saturday. "On May 11, if the conditions are met, the general rule will again become freedom of movement and the French will no longer have to produce a certificate to go out on the street," he declared after the Council. of ministers who decided to extend until July 24 the state of health emergency in France to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

However, the wearing of the mask will be made compulsory in public transport, recalled the Minister, and businesses will reopen under conditions of respecting barrier gestures.

For these reasons, “the security assistants, the voluntary assistant gendarmes, the police and national gendarmerie reservists as well as, importantly, the sworn security agents in transport but also the agents of the security services. 'the competition authority for businesses will be able to note the non-compliance with the rules of the health emergency and sanction it,' he detailed.

"A mark of trust"

“It is a considerable contribution, it is a mark of confidence. It is to give us all the chances so that the deconfinement takes place in the best possible sanitary conditions ”, specified Christophe Castaner, calling however the French to“ civic-mindedness ”.

"It is thanks to this civic spirit and this spirit of responsibility that containment was possible, it is thanks to them also that deconfinement will be possible", according to Christophe Castaner. "The struggle is hard, the struggle is bitter", he said, estimating that "with the respect of confinement we have been able to save thousands of lives"

"On May 11 the time will come to resume our lives gradually, patiently, carefully, learning to live with the virus, that's the goal for the next few weeks, the next few months," warned the Minister of the Interior.

The issue of travel

Asked about the authorization to move within a radius of 100 km around his home, and in particular on the method of taking this distance into account, Christophe Castaner indicated that “the device […] is not stopped in its terms ”. The Minister of the Interior also specified that there would be no restrictions on movement from one administrative area to another, in particular from one "green" department to another classified "red".

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