Emmanuel Macron announced localized nighttime curfews, during a television interview on October 14, 2020. -

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That's it, it's D-Day. The curfew to fight against the coronavirus comes into effect on the night of this Friday to Saturday.

In Ile-de-France, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Saint-Etienne, Aix-Marseille, Rouen and Grenoble, travel is prohibited from midnight (then from 9 p.m. every day from Saturday evening), until 6 a.m., without a precious sesame.

If you work until late at night or even at night, if you need to travel for health reasons or to see a loved one in a situation of dependency or just to take your pet out, you are entitled to a derogatory certificate. , as Jean Castex announced Thursday at a press conference.

Mandatory under penalty of a fine

As during confinement in the spring, this certificate will be mandatory.

Offenders are liable to a fine of 135 euros.

But this Friday, the precious document was still not available and accessible to the 20 million French people affected by these regionalized night curfews.

It can be downloaded from the government website, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced Thursday.

But it is not yet online, at H-7 of the official deadline.

It will be available "at the end of the day", assured

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the Ministry of the Interior.

The government has indicated that the certificate can also be downloaded to their phone or printed and completed by hand.

"Of course we can always continue to write on free paper, especially for older people or people who do not have a printer or photocopier available immediately," said the Minister of the Interior.

For night workers, an employer certificate can allow you to circulate without problem.

“I finish work after 9 pm.

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The transport offer will be maintained.

The certificate from your employer constitutes an exemption.

- Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (@Djebbari_JB) October 16, 2020

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