Coronavirus in the Bouches-du-Rhône: The prefect summoned to limit the obligation to wear a mask to “high density” areas -

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We will have to review his copy.

Friday, the administrative court of Marseille summoned the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône to be more precise in his decree making it compulsory to wear a mask in the towns of the department, in order to limit it to “high density” areas.

The summary judge had been seized by an inhabitant of a small town in the department who considered that the obligation to wear a mask, "in urbanized or agglomerated areas of the department", as specified in the prefectural decree, was too vague .

For Tuesday noon, at the latest

"The Prefect is ordered to take, no later than Tuesday September 15 at noon, one or more new orders or to modify his order of September 5, 2020 to limit the obligation to wear the mask that he provides to defined perimeters in a simple and legible way, ”said the judge in his order.

This or these new decrees must make it possible “to encompass in a coherent way places characterized by a high density of people or a difficulty in ensuring respect for physical distance.

Failing that, the execution of article 1 of the decree of September 5, 2020 will be suspended ”, continues the judge.

"The summary judge proceeds to a necessary conciliation between the imperatives of public health on the one hand and the preservation of individual freedoms on the other hand", reacted the lawyer of the plaintiff, Me Sylvain Carmier.

“The Prime Minister is asking the prefect to take new measures to stem the spread of the virus.

It is to be hoped that these measures will be more effective and less technocratic, ”he added, referring to the speech delivered by Jean Castex on Friday afternoon.

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