A beach on the Ile d'Oléron.

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  • The eight mayors of the island of Oléron wish to obtain an exemption from the rule of the kilometer around his home.

  • For them, the low population density of the island allows the entire population to enjoy its large natural spaces and in particular the beaches.

  • The prefecture has not yet given its answer.

    These elected officials plan to take a decree.

The decree has not yet been published by the eight mayors of the Ile d'Oléron.

But it will not be long !

For now, they still hope to convince the Prefecture of Charente-Maritime in the coming hours before taking action.

They collectively wish to be able to derogate from the rule of the maximum radius of one kilometer around the home for short trips during this period of reconfinement that France has been going through for a short week.

Michel Parent and his comrades want the State to “take into account the island specificity of the low-density Oleron territory in order to allow the inhabitants to access the numerous natural spaces: beaches, marshes, forests.

"The mayor of Château d'Oléron and president of the community of commune denounces" a strong inequality between those who live near a beach or a forest and the others who can simply walk around the block.

"" It is untenable especially when you have more than a stone's throw from home large natural spaces ", he adds, while one of his citizens admits that" nobody respects this rule "on the Isle.

More generally, elected officials regret that the specificities of each territory are not taken into account by the government, especially in rural areas.

Christophe Sueur, mayor of Saint-Pierre d'Oléron, asks the microphone of France 3 Aquitaine “to stop having a purely Parisian listening to bureaucrats who consider that we set rules by the kilometer.

We are not in the metropolis, we are on an island and I do not understand why the inhabitants of the city center cannot go and see the sea. "

Low population density

To support their argument, they say the situation has nothing to do with what the island of Oléron experienced during the first confinement.

This time, there has been no transhumance to their communes in recent days.

“We are 22,000 inhabitants on an island 30 kilometers long with 80 kilometers of beach and two large forests.

There is absolutely no risk to the population density and there is no longer at all the same behavior as in March or April on the part of the population with people who could believe they were on vacation.

Walking outdoors can therefore be done while respecting barrier gestures, ”says Michel Parent to

20 Minutes.

He also advances "common sense" dear to Emmanuel Macron and the government of Jean Castex because for him "the confinement is likely to last and we have to adapt things otherwise the measures will be less and less accepted by the population, with an ever-increasing frustration every day ”.

The elected officials therefore hope to obtain a positive response from the authorities.

Otherwise they will go into battle like other of their colleagues at the convenience stores.

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