A police officer carries out a control on the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, within the framework of the ordered containment within the framework of the fight against the spread of the new coronavirus – SYSPEO / SIPA
- The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, the mayor and the prosecutor of the Republic of Nice spoke together on Monday morning to denounce a release in respect of confinement.
- “Some have developed real circumvention strategies,” said the state official.
- The city has decided to toughen the tone by introducing new restrictive measures.
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“We had 30% more tickets on Saturday and Sunday.” The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes Bernard Gonzalez spoke “with seriousness” this Monday, during a press videoconference with the mayor Chistian Estrosi and the prosecutor of Nice Xavier Bonhomme, to utter a “cry of alarm “. He denounced a “real relaxation” while respecting the containment organized to fight
the spread of the new coronavirus.
The town hall of Nice has also announced a new reinforcement of its measures against these behaviors “which endanger those who are responsible for it but also the others”, regretted Christian Estrosi. Overflows that did not come from vacationers, who respected the rules and did not come to the Côte d’Azur, but from “our local population, the very spring weather helping,” said Bernard Gonzalez.
“True circumvention strategies”
The state representative said he had observed an increasing number of “cases of people who have reached the end of the four reports”, which triggered the creation of an offense and a passage before the criminal court. “Some have developed real circumvention strategies. We saw whole families playing hide and seek with our security forces, he said. To participate in picnics in the rocks or to go out in the mountains. “
Four people requested a delay before being tried and some are currently in detention. “And three to four other individuals must appear immediately this Monday afternoon for the same facts,” said Xavier Bonhomme. They face up to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,700 euros.
“What is also worrying is that we are seeing more and more checks going wrong,” said the prosecutor. With people who rebel and who sometimes exert violence against police officers who only do their job. There will be systematic deferrals in these cases there. “
Curfew at 8 p.m. and sports prohibited at certain times
Overflows which pushed the town hall of Nice to take new restrictive measures. “There will be a tightening of the rules to avoid the regroupings that we have identified more numerous in certain zones of the city”, announced the mayor. The curfew, set at 10 p.m., will come into effect at 8 p.m., in the Notre-Dame, Trachel and Saint-Charles districts in particular, said the elected official.
And Christian Estrosi has also decided to harden the tone in the face of “sportsmen in Prada sneakers who use this to try to abuse the situation”. Another order will ban the practice of sport outside of two time slots, between 6 am and noon and from 6 pm to 8 pm, “times when we are not tempted to sunbathe,” he said.
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