A gendarme controls a bather … it was an inflatable doll

The joke goes around social networks. On a video and two photos, we can see a young woman sunbathing in the sun under an umbrella on the beach in Carnon, near Montpellier. A beach, for the rest, completely deserted, because closed by prefectural decree.

“Madam, your papers and your certificate please?! Madam …. eh oh? Can you hear me?”

Deaf dialogue between a gendarme and an inflatable doll …# ContainmentDay48 pic.twitter.com/bHU2Fx2H0Q

– ⭐????Serge Ronchon????⭐ (@SergeRonchon) May 3, 2020

Helmeted, the gendarme of the motorcycle brigade approaches to presumably verbalize the young woman … and realizes that it is not one. Under the umbrella, a joker placed an inflatable doll.

The nice response from the Hérault gendarmes

History has made the canvas laugh, including the gendarmerie de l’Hérault which did not deflate and took the hoax with humor by relaying it in turn. “While watching the beaches, the gendarmes rescued a doll abandoned by its owner. # ReplyPresent # AllMobilized “The soldiers smile in a post.

In surveillance of the beaches ????, the gendarmes ????‍♂️ rescued a doll abandoned by its owner. # ReplyPresent # AllMobilized pic.twitter.com/09zggzxAT6

– Gendarmerie de l’Hérault (@ Gendarmerie_34) May 3, 2020

A little humor during confinement, a policeman thinking of doing his job went to verbalize this tanning tourist on the beach of Carnon under the laughing eye of a seagull … bravo for this moment of humor! It made my Sunday #HumourConFinement #beach pic.twitter.com/eo8bYP8Eyq

– Paduano Valérie (@ValeriePaduano) May 3, 2020

French beaches have been banned since March 19 to limit the spread of coronavirus. Sixty deputies, including eight from Occitania, asked for their reopening at the start of the
deconfinement, May 11. To date, the entire French coastline, except Mayotte, is in green on the map updated daily by the government. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner continues to ban their access until at least June 2.