Chartres. During a curfew compliance check, a hundred vehicles checked for two tickets

6.30 p.m. this Tuesday 23 February 2021, at Barjouville (Eure-et-Loir), in the agglomeration of Chartres. About ten gendarmes, supported by the departmental road safety squadron and the surveillance and intervention platoon of the Gendarmerie are mobilized for a control respect for the curfew.

For more than an hour, the police checked a hundred vehicles, to two tickets have been issued.

The checkpoint of the day: the parking lot of the Jardiland store, where several pairs were operating. In a few minutes, the gendarmes check if the exceptional travel certificates are duly completed, as well as supporting documents, driving licenses and vehicle papers.

“The aim of the 6 pm curfew is also to avoid holding festive gatherings, even if this is hard for the population,” indicates Colonel Georges Pierrini.

With the @Gendarmerie d’#EureetLoir tonight near #Chartres for a control of compliance #curfew. Coming on @ActuChartres pic.twitter.com/jwWkCglYJb

– Inès Genetay (@IGenetay) February 23, 2021

1,300 infringements recorded in Eure-et-Loir since December 15

Françoise Souliman, prefect of Eure-et-Loir, went there. She calls at the responsibility of Eurelians. “This is not to repeat, the department of Eure-et-Loir is today the department of the Center-Val de Loire region most affected by the virus”.

This Tuesday 23 February 2021, the incidence rate in Eure-et-Loir is 199.60 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants. A rate that has risen considerably since our last assessment, last Friday.

Since December 15, 2020, 1,300 offenses have been identified in the department, related to wearing a mask or respecting the curfew. We are going to get the return on investment from the vaccine, it would be silly to relax everyone’s efforts at the last moment.

“We are in a period where we do not know whether there will be reconfinement or not,” adds the prefect of Eure-et-Loir.

The prefect of Eure-et-Loir and Colonel Georges Pierrini also confided that strict controls were observed in establishments open to the public still open, seven have been the subject of an administrative closure since December 2020.

With an incidence rate of 200/100 000, Eure-et-Loir is the department of Center-Val de Loire where the #coronavirus circulates most actively

In front of the #COVID19, the internal security forces ensure that the #Curfew

I was with the @Gendarmerie for a check pic.twitter.com/MPouYneRwI

– Prefect of Eure-et-Loir (@ Prefet28) February 23, 2021

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