Eleven Lille police officers have recently tested positive for Covid-19 (illsutration). - M.LIBERT / 20 MINUTES

Wednesday ended the massive screening campaign against the coronavirus of Lille police. The final assessment provided by the Regional Health Agency (ARS), Thursday evening, counted eight positive cases of Covid-19 in addition to the three detected upstream of the campaign.

During this campaign, 1,224 civil servants from ten or so sites in the agglomeration underwent the tests. Different services were involved, including CRS and territorial intelligence agents (ex-RG). "Overall, we are satisfied with the way it was done, even if not all the police were screened. For our part, we would have liked systematic tests for all of the Hauts-de-France staff, ”recognizes Arnaud Boutelier, assistant regional secretary of the Alliance union.

Hundreds of police confined according to union

According to the ARS, therefore, a total of eleven Lille police officers are currently infected with the coronavirus. The Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) does not give a figure concerning the number of police officers or relatives of police officers currently in "fourteen. "According to the Alliance union," they are about a hundred civil servants to be confined since the start of the test campaign. "

According to our information, three police stations or police stations in the metropolitan area have been temporarily closed due to the coronavirus. These are the Wattignies, La Madeleine and Fives sites. To date, all have been reopened after disinfection of the premises.

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