Moselle is currently hard hit by the Covid-19 epidemic.
The cases of contaminations explode, in particular because of the progression of the variants.
However, the prefect took no additional restrictive measures.
Faced with local elected officials who are calling for re-containment in the department, the government is playing it safe.
The prefect of Moselle has ruled: for the moment there will be no local confinement or closure of schools in Moselle despite the requests of many local elected officials.
The mayor of Metz, François Grosdidier, however, described an "explosion" of contamination with Covid-19 and resuscitation services "on the verge of saturation".
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The executive will pay the consequences
The government is faced with a dilemma: it does not want to be criticized for being too weak in the face of the situation, but it wants at all costs to avoid local reconfigurations, demanded by its opponents, starting with Marine Le Pen.
An adviser in Matignon even mentions a risk of a "domino effect": if a first local reconfinement was decreed, other territories could then demand local restrictions.
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The members of the government know very well that, even if it is the local elected representatives who ask for it, it is the executive which will pay the consequences of this measure.
For the moment in Moselle, the government and its representative, the prefect, are putting the package on tests, detection and tracing of contamination.
They're now crossing their fingers so they don't have to re-limit.