After the national measures, the government seems to have changed its minds with local screwdrivers.

After Nice, Dunkirk could be the next sector affected by new restrictions.

At the same time, the territories most spared by the Covid dream of seeing relief.

Hand-sewn restrictions.

After the national strategy to fight against the coronavirus, the government now seems to want to apply its measures according to the situation on the ground.

"Given the situation, it is better to regionalize", confirmed to local elected officials of Côte-d'Or Emmanuel Macron, during his trip to Burgundy on Tuesday, the day after the announcement of specific restrictions on the coastal strip of Alpes-Maritimes. 

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The local approach, a new government logic

The logic is to have a local approach because the situations are different according to the regions, specifies the entourage of the president.

The Elysee therefore wants to do it on a case-by-case basis.

In addition to Nice and the Maralpine coast, which will experience two weekends of containment, "additional braking measures" are expected in Dunkirk.

And to succeed with this new strategy, Matignon is counting on the prefect-mayor couple.

An idea that already seems to be bearing fruit, since the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, welcomed the new restrictions.

For his part, the mayor of Dunkirk, Patrice Vergriete, has already specified that he would not oppose "a confinement if it were to take place, because it is a difficult decision which has been taken".

Nevertheless, the city councilor argues "that everything must be tried before [putting in place] measures of deprivation of liberty. [...] We want to give the Dunkirk population one last chance not to be confined."

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Little-affected areas that require relief

Far from the anger aroused last September by the closure of bars and restaurants in Marseille, the case-by-case strategy seems to ease tensions.

But it is not perfect for all that.

If the territories most affected by the epidemic should expect to undergo stronger restrictions, the most spared dream of seeing relief.

"We are not asking to go back to a normal life all at once, but to ask ourselves if it is still appropriate to maintain a curfew at 6 pm", thus launches at the microphone of Europe 1 Ronan Loas, mayor of Ploemeur , in Morbihan. 

Decreeing a curfew from "8 pm would be much more understandable. It starts to light until more than 7 pm and that creates a kind of frustration", advances the city councilor.

In view of the local health situation, Ronan Loas even risks "why not experimenting with the reopening of certain terraces of bars, restaurants, cultural places ... I think that if we want people to accept hard and strict rules , we must also be able to return a little freedom at times ".

But these desires come up against the categorical response of the executive, which considers that it is not opportune for the moment to loosen the grip.