Illustration masks on the street. - NEW HINE / SIPA

The news surprised or even outraged more than one elected representative during the public meeting of the Eurometrople council this Friday morning. When it had just started, its president, Pia Imbs, announced the intention of the prefect Josiane Chevalier to sign an order requiring the wearing of a mask to fight against the coronavirus throughout the Eurometropolis, in the public space, day and night, from Saturday. Cyclists and joggers would not be required to do so. Sports and cultural activities would also be excluded. A “brutality” of the announcement which aroused the anger of more than one elected official. If the latter did not dissertate on the merits of the usefulness of such a measure, they especially criticize a government method "without consultation".

A decision "without consultation"

A "surprise", according to Mayor Jeanne Barseghian, also first vice-president of the Eurometropolis and who expressed her disappointment at the lack of dialogue with the State and "this way of doing things. "" What good is it if in fine our recommendations or our opinions are not taken into account "she launched to the assembly.

The mayor-prefect tandem initiated to manage the coronavirus crisis seems to have taken a lead in the wing. Another question is the sanctions. Again, this could be a matter of tension in the days to come. It seems they would be educational in the early days. But the mayor has already warned: "This decision is not our responsibility, being a prefectural decree, there is no question for us of engaging means of control and repression when we are not at the initiative of this decree. "

President Pia Imbs was also indignant and told the assembly "to regret this total lack of consultation", "to have been faced with a fait accompli while we have daily relations with the ARS and the prefecture. "

Contacted by 20 Minutes , the Bas-Rhin prefecture has indicated that it will communicate in due course.

More information to come on 20 Minutes.fr.

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