France to deploy 100,000 police to enforce coronavirus lockdown

France24 ^ | March 17, 2020

[Oldeconomybuyer]

France will deploy 100,000 police to enforce a lockdown ordered by President Emmanuel Macron aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak, the country's interior minister said on Monday, and fixed checkpoints will be set up across the country.

"Stay at home," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, adding that fines of up to 135 euros would be handed out to those flouting the toughened restrictions.

In a sombre address to the nation, Macron said that from Tuesday midday (1100 GMT) people should stay at home unless it was to buy groceries, travel to work, exercise or for medical care.

France had already shut down restaurants and bars, closed schools and put ski resorts off limits, but Macron said measures unprecedented in peacetime were needed as the number of infected people doubled every three days and deaths spiralled higher.

Anyone flouting the restrictions, in place for at least the next two weeks, would be punished.

"I know what I am asking of you is unprecedented but circumstances demand it," Macron said.

"We're not up against another army or another nation. But the enemy is right there: invisible, elusive, but it is making progress."

Under the new measures, soldiers would help transport the sick to hospitals with spare capacity and a military hospital with 30 intensive-care beds would be set up in the eastern region of Alsace, where one of the largest infection clusters has broken out.

[ronnie raygun]

How about the Muslim enclaves, going in over there? NOT!

[wastoute]

Did he really lock the country down and then virtue signal that he wasn’t closing the borders? LOL!

[over3Owithabrain]

Police State. Coming to a country near you.

[mewzilla]

Unless they’re sending out the paper pushers, France doesn’t have that many police.

[joma89]

And the police state puts on their riot gear that you bought through forced taxation so that the government can limit your freedoms now and into the future.

But weapons and ammo, folks.

JoMa

[duckman]

What to do about Spring Break on Florida beaches. Just reported on Fox, thousands ‘invade’ Florida beaches ignoring Prez Trumps orders.

[yldstrk]

Calm the hell down France.

[yldstrk]

I wish I was on the beach. It’s a lot easier to do nothing on the beach. In fact, I may go.

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I don’t see FL’s gov getting medieval on their heinies.

Why is the gov permitting it?

[Leep]

Have all 100,000 been tested for the virus. otherwise, how do we know that they are not the ones spreading the virus around?

[null and void]

And the police state puts on their riot gear that you bought through forced taxation so that the government can limit your freedoms now and into the future.

But weapons and ammo, folks.

JoMa

It translated into French pretty well...

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008

They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.

I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...

The French sure seem to love them some Nazis...

[Adder]

Already here in Police state states and cities.

Just not sitting very well with me. You can work, grocery shop exercise and what ever other exceptions they carve out.

Then what the heck is the point?

Controlling you for the sake of control...because they said so.

[VanShuyten]

“ How about the Muslim enclaves, going in over there? NOT!“

Could be a win-win situation for France, if the Wuflu is as bad as many Freepers believe. In many of the banlieue, fire and medical won’t go in without police protection, so the virus might end up cooking off quite a few more there than in other places. Add to that the peace a quarantine of those places will bring to the rest of the population, and Macron will get re-elected.

Of course, France will need a shoot-to-kill order to keep the death cultists penned up, or they will start thinking of the coronavirus as a suicide vest.