Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille.

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M.Libert / 20 Minutes

  • A curfew is imposed from Saturday in a region and eight metropolises, including Lille.

  • The idea is to fight against the spread of the coronavirus during private parties.

  • Martine Aubry, deplored the too wide hourly amplitude of this measure.

Before time, it's not time.

On Wednesday evening, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced the establishment of a curfew in the Ile-de-France region and in eight metropolises, including Lille, to try to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

The mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, regrets the hourly amplitude of this new measure, which she considers too broad.

From Saturday evening, it will be forbidden to circulate in the streets of the zones concerned between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., except to be able to justify a valid reason whose list will be unveiled, this Thursday, by the Prime Minister.

A curfew decreed for at least four weeks, the avowed purpose of which is to prevent the frenzied fiestas of carefree young people in private apartments.

"We would have preferred a curfew later in the evening"

Except that to solve this problem, everyone will drink.

Or rather who will have to stop toasting.

Restaurants that could still work until 12:30 a.m. and thus provide two services in the evening will have to comply with the rule and lower their curtains at 9 p.m.

The pill is struggling to pass for the mayor of Lille who is fighting to preserve her restaurants since the Lille metropolis is on alert.

"We must apply the measures announced by the President of the Republic, even if we would have preferred a curfew later in the evening", she declared on Thursday morning on Twitter.

“These measures are particularly difficult for the world of culture and restaurant owners, who in Lille have all respected health protocols.

We will continue to help them and ask the government to increase their support, ”added Martine Aubry.

And it is all the more frustrating that the restaurant owners in Lille did not clearly understand what they could legally do until Monday.

There remains the hope that the rule requiring customers of restaurants, brasseries and tea rooms to eat in order to be able to consume a drink is lifted.

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  • Coronavirus

  • Curfew

  • Lille

  • Martine Aubry