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As for customers, they also have to prove their identity. “In December, we started to carry out repressive checks, which are intensifying more and more at the end of the month”, recalls Captain Gabillard, second in command of the gendarmerie companion of Istres (Bouches-du- Rhône). To strengthen controls deemed ineffective by the Prime Minister, the police are deployed everywhere, including as close as possible to the peaks as at Corbier in Savoy. Whether on the terraces or at the foot of the slopes, it is difficult to slip through the cracks.
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The checks are carried out at random by the ski lift teams. In two hours this Wednesday morning, one of them has already checked 166 skiers. In Savoie, the incidence rate is 750 per 100,000 inhabitants, slightly higher than the national average. Tourism professionals are anxious. The ski resorts are therefore hoping to refuel this winter, despite the absence of British skiers.
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