Paris (AFP)
"The French are not children" and "we can trust them", estimated on Sunday the government spokesperson, Sibeth Ndiaye, on the eve of the start of the deconfinement, which multiplies the health questions, especially in transport and school.
"Confidence does not exclude control, but the French are not children, they also have the same will as anyone to protect themselves to protect others," said Ms. Ndiaye on BFMTV, then that the government is sometimes accused of infantilizing the French in this crisis.
"I think we can trust (the French) and not be systematically infantilization, of the Fouettard fathers," she insisted.
According to the spokeswoman, "we have for several weeks, alongside the head of government, Édouard Philippe, done everything to make this deconfinement possible from (Monday), it is a new stage which opens" .
While primary schools must also reopen, with health rules that risk turning into a puzzle and worry local elected officials and parents, Sibeth Ndiaye justified that only half of the teachers should be present in classrooms next week.
"We wanted to protect teachers in the same way as the whole of the French population and the same directives apply to teachers as in any other profession," she said, arguing " people who are vulnerable "or" people who live with someone vulnerable ".
Regarding the new screening strategy, Ms. Ndiaye also recalled that 700,000 tests would be available per week.
Regarding the StopCovid contact tracing application, which must be operational on June 2, she estimated "that the French will be grateful to us for having taken the maximum precautions so that this application meets both sanitary needs and (qu 'it) protect our personal data ".
Government spokeswoman said "it is important that there can be a public political debate on the subject, that we are certain that it works from a technical point of view and that it answers all questions of freedom public ".
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