REPORTAGE
The euphoria which may have accompanied the end of total confinement made some people forget the elementary health precautionary measures. Thus, we could see a lot of people on Monday evening in the streets of Paris, in particular on the edge of the Saint-Martin canal, forcing the police to intervene to put an end to rallies which, according to her, did not respect barrier gestures. The lesson seems to have been learned, since Friday evening, for the start of the first weekend of deconfinement, the residents crossed by Europe 1 in the places of the capital where the Parisians got used to meet in the open air showed themselves on the whole much more cautious.
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"We would have thought there would have been a lot more people"
"We live in fairly small accommodation, we spent two months locked up, so the need to go out is felt quite strongly", explains Isabelle, who drinks with her friends on the banks of the Saint-Martin canal. The air is quite cool but the sun is there for this first Friday night of deconfinement. However, only a few small groups took over the riverbanks, far from the crowd images that circulated at the start of the week. "We would have thought there would have been a lot more people," admits a passerby.
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The coronavirus, subject of all conversations
On the banks of the Seine, the observation is identical, even if the crowd is a little denser. Noémie and Maxime sip a beer there, but at a distance of one meter from each other, with a bottle of hydroalcoholic gel between them. "We tell each other about our adventures of confinement. We joined each other's elbows, and there I am happy to be able to speak to him visually" slips the young man.
The conversations, for the most part, revolve around the coronavirus and the crisis. "It's hard to move on," agrees Claire, who came to picnic on the Esplanade des Invalides with three friends. The guests redouble their precautions to prevent interactions as much as possible; for example, everyone has a glass that they fill with chips to avoid having to dip their hand in the same package. The evening can be summed up in a few words: the joy of a newfound freedom, a few bottles of wine or beer and rather applied barrier gestures.