Faced with the "relaxation" noted Sunday by the French authorities regarding the respect of confinement, the Paris police headquarters announced Tuesday April 7 that outdoor sports activities will be prohibited from Wednesday between 10 am and 7 pm.

"The prefect of police has decided, in agreement with the mayor of Paris, to regulate access to public space by reducing certain possibilities for going out during the day," read a press release.

"Thus, from April 8, 2020, outings for individual sports activities will no longer be authorized between 10 am and 7 pm throughout the territory of Paris," adds the prefecture. "They therefore remain authorized from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m., when traffic on the streets is lowest."

Currently, the confinement in force since March 17 in France allows, among other things, brief trips within the limit of one hour daily and within a maximum radius of one kilometer around the home "linked to individual physical activity ".

"It is not depending on the weather that we decide to go out or not"

The Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, had asked Monday the prefects "to examine on a case by case basis" and in connection with the mayors the "need to tighten the measures".

The spring weekend and the first days of school holidays in zone C [Paris and Île-de-France zone] had given some people the desire to allow themselves an "exceptional" outing after twenty days of confinement, to the point that authorities and hospital staff have reaffirmed the importance of staying confined.

"It is not according to the weather that we decide to go out or not, it is according to a fight that we are waging against the Covid, and the risk is loosening," he added .

With AFP and Reuters

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