INTERVIEW
Six hours that France is confined. Deployed throughout the national territory to enforce the total containment measures announced Monday evening by Emmanuel Macron against the coronavirus, the police began their control operations, and fined the most recalcitrant citizens. "Overall, it seems to have gone well," says Grégory Joron, national secretary of the union SGP-Police CRS unit, contacted by Europe 1. Taking stock of this first day of confinement, he notes that "people understand , even if the message is difficult to get through in certain neighborhoods. "
"Pedagogy is not enough"
"We had a verbalization in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, and some difficulties in taking collective account of the recommendations and instructions of the government," continues the unionist.
However, it was not necessarily a question of verbalizing from the first day, but initially of carrying out preventive work. On this, Grégory Joron believes that efforts are in vain. "Unfortunately, we have people who find it difficult to understand, and when we explain things to them, pedagogy is not enough", he explains, declaring to trust "free will" and "professionalism" of colleagues who "probably had no other choice" than to proceed with these verbalizations.
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"People don't feel concerned"
If the measures are difficult to apply, according to the national secretary of the SGP-Police CRS Unit, it is because people do not feel concerned. "As long as we do not find ourselves faced with this difficulty, we do not realize that it is a particular virus of which we can be a healthy carrier and contaminate others without ever being sick," explains- he, considering an awareness that is slow to come.
Monday evening, Christophe Castaner announced the deployment of more than 100,000 police and gendarmes to monitor compliance with the restriction measures announced earlier by the Head of State. If travel is not prohibited but reduced as much as possible, people who cannot justify (via a certificate) their travel may be fined € 38, but which can quickly reach 135 euros.
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