What are you going to do for the last night of 2020?

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  • Curfew from 8 pm to 6 am, restaurants and clubs closed, calls for responsibility… This year, the New Year will have a very bitter taste.

  • Faced with the epidemic rebound, the authorities, who fear an increase in contamination, have indeed put in place many restrictions for the night of New Year's Eve.

  • To help you,

    20 Minutes gives

     you a short, practical, step-by-step guide on what you can and cannot do tomorrow Thursday, December 31st.

There are those who will do nothing on December 31, and who explained to us yesterday why.

And those who still chose to celebrate the transition to the New Year on Thursday evening, despite the restrictions linked to the coronavirus epidemic.

One thing is certain, this New Year's Eve will be like no other.

Between the curfew, the barrier gestures and the ban on assembling on public roads, it is sometimes difficult to know what is authorized or not for New Year's Eve.

To help you celebrate it with confidence (and health security),

20 Minutes

takes stock of what you can and cannot do for New Year's Eve.

Can we go where we want on December 31?

Let's start from the beginning.

Officially, nothing forbids you to celebrate the New Year.

Since the lifting of confinement on December 15, travel has been authorized anywhere in France.

But unlike the 24th, during Christmas Eve, you will have to respect the curfew, in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

In other words, whether you are celebrating the New Year near your home or in another region, you will have to manage to get to your friends or family before the deadline.

In this case, you risk exposing yourself to a fine of 135 euros, which can go up to 3,750 euros and 6 months in prison if you have made more than three prohibited trips in a month.

And the 100,000 national, municipal and gendarmes mobilized Thursday evening should not give gifts.

As for motorists who risk finding themselves in traffic jams to wake up, they are asked to make their arrangements, "there will be no instructions for indulgence for the police", warned Gerald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior.

However, exceptions - which we are beginning to know well - persist.

To travel between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., you must have a travel certificate and obviously a valid reason - business travel, imperative family reasons, travel for medical reasons, for people with disabilities and their accompanying person or to take out his pet.

How many can we meet?

Second step, the evening.

If it is not forbidden to receive people at home or to go to friends - places of residence being private -, the government calls on the French to limit themselves to "six adults" maximum at the table, not to mention children.

Gestures barriers, social distancing, wearing of the mask… The executive counts "on the responsibility of each one".

Can we be sanctioned if we exceed six people?

There is no law on the number of people and "it is not possible to receive a fine for failure to respect social distancing," the Interior Ministry told

La Voix du Nord

, recalling that the police "can only enter with the authorization of people domiciled in the accommodation".

However, the police can intervene at your home for nighttime noise.

In this case, you incur a fine of 68 euros.

What is the risk of participating in a clandestine party or staying in the street?

A small evening, yes, but no clandestine party in a pavilion transformed into a paid nightclub, with dj set and cloakroom.

If you organize or participate "in a private party in an establishment closed because of sanitary measures (restaurant, multipurpose room ...)", you incur sanctions, added the ministry to our colleagues.

It will be 135 euros fine for the organizer, who can be blamed for endangering others.

As for his guests, they risk the same sum, according to the decree of October 29, 2020 which stipulates that “hygiene measures […], including physical distancing of at least one meter between two people, […] must be observed in all places and in all circumstances ”.

These fines can also go up to 3,750 euros in the event of repeated offenses

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For those who planned to end up in the street, like the onlookers who go to the Champs-Elysées for the midnight countdown, your plans will have to be changed: gatherings on public roads are prohibited.

"We will be uncompromising against unauthorized gatherings and wild parties," Gerald Darmanin warned on December 10.

Can we go home in the middle of the night?

Last step, the return.

This year, it's impossible to escape just after midnight (even if after a certain time, we understand that the question "And you, are you going to be vaccinated?" Will make you want to go to bed).

We remind you that the curfew prohibits travel between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

The only solution if you wake up elsewhere than at home: sleep there and leave in the early morning.

During his press conference on December 10, Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed that it was possible to go to friends' house for New Year's Eve and stay there to sleep.

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