Empty on the Champs Elysée: the virus is still spreading in Paris. Picture: EPA
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Liberté, fraternité, séparé: the unity of France is crumbling
Citizens can move more freely in green zones than in red ones. A novelty in the strictly centralized country.
One has to speak of breaking a taboo, even of a French revolution. She was concocted by an economist named Bary Pradelski. The young Grenoble researcher had an idea when he wanted to meet a mathematician friend. In the phone conversation they both thought they were corona-free and thus something like green oases in the red flashing country. To see each other, would they just have a safe way? some kind of green bridge? through polluted Paris, they found.
This gave birth to the idea that is now introducing all of France. As of Monday, the national territory will be divided into two zones. In the red area from Paris to the English Channel and to the Rhine, the restrictions that have been in effect since March remain partly in force; In the green west and south of the country, on the other hand, the easing continues: parks, middle schools and other facilities reopen there, and if the zone remains in the green area for three weeks, the cafés and restaurants can also start operating again.
7,000 dead in the Paris area
The division into two zones is a mental novelty for the Jacobin centralist republic, which not only relies on freedom and fraternity, but also on Egalité, the sacrosanct equality. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe therefore stressed on Thursday that there was still only “one France”. He also tried to appease French primal fears of the country falling apart. For once this was perhaps not necessary at all: the French understand the purpose of drawing the border right through the largest country in Europe in terms of area. In the hinterland of the Côte d? Azur there is not the same threat situation as a thousand kilometers in the north of the country, mainly in the greater Paris area, where there are already 7,000 corona dead.
The zone division. picture: leparisien
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In addition, the zoning devised by Pradelski can be handled flexibly: if the situation in a green department worsens, it automatically slips into the red zone; public services close again, the citizens have to put on masks. To differentiate, the government has determined three objective criteria: the number of weekly infections, the number of emergency beds occupied and the rapid tests available.
The division into green or red zones is a central part of a wide-ranging plan to loosen the curfew across France on Monday. (aargauerzeitung.ch)
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