Important checks were carried out in Nice by the municipal and national police for the first weekend of containment -

E. MARTIN / ANP / 20 Minutes

The two weekends of partial confinement ordered in 63 municipalities of the Côte d'Azur have a good reason to be, according to the justice.

Seized by 241 people, "citizens of all backgrounds domiciled in the 06", the three summary judges of the Nice Administrative Court "considered that the measures taken by the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes for the sole purpose of combating the spread of coronavirus should be regarded, in this case, as necessary, proportionate and adapted to local circumstances ”, according to a decision rendered on Wednesday, between the two weekends concerned.

"The restrictions instituted do not seriously and manifestly illegal interference with the freedom to come and go, the freedom to undertake, the protection of health and the right to respect for private life", further notes the court. .

Faced with a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases

This measure of partial confinement, hitherto unprecedented in metropolitan France, was announced on February 22 after a visit to Nice by the Minister of Health.

Faced with a surge in the number of cases of Covid-19, Olivier Véran then asked the prefect to "continue consultation with elected officials" with a view to "additional measures", which may range "from a reinforced curfew to a local confinement on weekends ”.

As for the agglomeration of Dunkirk, the second option was therefore finally retained.

"But nothing justifies it, attacked Me Zia Oloumi, one of the two lawyers of the 241 applicants, questioned Monday by

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Does that mean that the virus only circulates on weekends?

This measure does not make sense.

The doctor-mayor of Antibes Jean Léonetti denounced it.

Two specialists from the University Hospital of Nice, but also people from the University Hospital of Toulouse and Montpellier, also spoke out against it.

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Me Zia Oloumi was not immediately reachable on Wednesday.

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