The beaches on boulevard du Midi, in Cannes, empty during confinement - F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes

Picnics and sunbathing should be prohibited. But, as of this weekend, the beaches of several municipalities in the Alpes-Maritimes department will once again be accessible for certain activities.

"I will open, after examining the files that will be offered to me, the beaches whose mayors will request the opening," said Prefect Bernard Gonzalez on France Bleu Azur on Tuesday. "We are going to start off with a use of the beaches that we call 'dynamic', that is to say for walking and access to the sea for individual sports" without "sunbathing, picnicking" and other things, "he added.

Oral agreement

The mayors of Nice, Cannes, Antibes, Villeneuve-Loubet and even Menton had already expressed their wish to reopen the coastline under conditions. As early as Monday, Christian Estrosi (LR) explained on Twitter that he had found an "agreement" with the prefect "on the advisability of opening access to the beaches of Nice in a non-static way for walking and individual sporting activities from the week -end next ”.

I am delighted with the agreement reached with @ prefet06 on the advisability of opening access to the beaches of # Nice06 in a non-static way for walking and individual sports from the next weekend. #Containment pic.twitter.com/oH8CEx11iy

- Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) May 11, 2020

Questioned by 20 Minutes , the mayor of Cannes and president of the Cannes Lérins urban community David Lisnard also indicated that he had obtained an oral agreement. In a letter addressed to the prefect on May 7, he asked, also on behalf of the neighboring municipalities of Mandelieu-La Napoule and Théoule-sur-Mer, for the beaches to be reopened to "walk alone, as a couple, parents with parents children ”, to“ access the water for individual water sports and leisure ”or to“ fish alone ”.

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