France: weekend confined for the inhabitants of the Alpes-Maritimes, between skepticism and resourcefulness
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The police patrolled all weekend in Nice.
AFP - VALERY HACHE
Text by: Pauline Gleize Follow
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The police checked all weekend.
Controls at the Italian border have also been stepped up.
Another particularity: the measures are local creating a two-speed department.
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The inhabitants of the southern Alpes Maritimes can once again travel during the day after a confined weekend.
In the line reserved for light vehicles, drivers and passengers must show a white paw.
Commissioner Jean Gazan, deputy director of the border police in the Alpes-Maritimes, lets a van leave.
Some vehicles fall through the cracks when too many checks are in progress, but the principle is maximum verification.
A Romanian motorist is driving towards Spain where he says he has lived for fifteen years.
In some cases, there is a tolerance on the certificate, but the Covid test is mandatory: “
No one gave me the information.
And so far nobody has stopped me, neither at the Italian border, neither in Slovenia, nor in Hungary
”.
The only solution… go back to Italy for a test.
“
The test, I do it, even if I have to pay.
But I don't know Italy, why would I go there?
So if they want they stop me but I'm not going to Italy
”.
End of the dispute, he finally decides to turn back.
Control is going better for this family concerned by local confinement.
Sanitary measures have created an invisible border on the one hand, the obligation to stay at home, on the other not.
In Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée, Marc is doing odds and ends in his absolutely deserted street.
The dotted containment leaves him skeptical.
Some people from Nice went to the mountains but just across the confined area.
Patricia, from a neighboring village, notes the changes.
In a very close and confined town, Sandrine has adapted the family organization.
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