Prime Minister Jean Castex leaving the Elysée Palace on February 24, 2021. -

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Coronavirus: New announcements from Jean Castex this Thursday, at 6 p.m. 

The government has started to prepare the population for a new round of health measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The epidemic situation "is deteriorating" and "is very worrying in ten departments", thus alerted the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, at the end of the Council of Ministers Wednesday.

To find out about any new restrictions, local or national, you will have to wait until 6 p.m. this Thursday.

At this time, Prime Minister Jean Castex will indeed hold a press conference on the subject.

Gérald Darmanin traveling this Thursday in Marseille

After a pass of arms with the city of Marseille around surveillance cameras last week, the Minister of the Interior will begin a tour of the Bouches-du-Rhône on Thursday.

Gérald Darmanin intends to show that he is "attentive to the situation in Marseille", plagued by drug networks, said his entourage, stressing "the very important effort" of the government, with 300 police reinforcements.

After the second largest city in France this Thursday, the minister will visit Rognac and Arles on Friday.

A trial-river and 12 supporters of OM condemned

The Marseille Criminal Court sentenced 11 Olympique de Marseille supporters to six months suspended prison sentence, another to three months in prison, and released two others after the incidents at the Commanderie on January 30.

They were sentenced for participation in a group for the preparation of willful violence on people or damage to property, possession of smoke, or narcotics, after nearly twelve hours of debates.

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