We are now on day four of the confinement restrictions announced by President Emmanuel Macron.
Under pain of a fine, everyone is told to stay at home unless they have a valid cause.
If you’re stopped by police, you need to have a document with you giving your address and the reason for your trip – which can be one of five:
- Essential work
- Medical
- Urgent family matters
- Food shopping
- A brief excursion for exercise or to walk the dog
If you don’t have the document, or if your reason is deemed to be fake or unsatisfactory, then you are in breach of the law, and thousands of fines have already been imposed.
In the main the orders are being followed, and across the country a strange silence and emptiness have descended – only comparable to what it must have been like in wartime, when normal activity stops and people hunker down at home, venturing out only occasionally to sniff the wind or to stay sane.
Being cooped up with children in a tiny Paris flat or on the 20th floor of a high-rise in the suburbs cannot be fun – and one of the key questions in the weeks ahead (and everyone assumes the fortnight’s confinement announced thus far is only a start) will be how people cope psychologically with this enforced domestic imprisonment.
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