If you want to go to the markets of Cergy, it is now useless to go if you don’t have your mask. Jean-Paul Jeandon, the mayor (PS), took a municipal decree making it compulsory to wear a mask from the age of 11 on the fairgrounds from this Wednesday until September 27.
“I considered that the rise of the Covid-19 and the increase in market attendance required the taking of preventive measures, justifies the mayor. Mediators as well as the municipal police will be present to enforce the decree, ”continues the elected official. Those who do not respect the new rule risk a fine amounting to 135 euros.
A measure understood by residents
“It’s a good thing!” Rejoices Gaudelive 64, who regularly goes shopping in Cergy Saint-Christophe. You have to avoid taking risks, especially at my age. A position shared by Abiba, 38, who has only returned twice to the market since deconfinement for fear of contracting the virus. “It is absolutely necessary to avoid a re-containment,” she insists. Putting on a mask is not a big price to pay. “
If these two residents note that the health measures are already globally respected on market days, Patrice, observes him “a certain relaxation in recent weeks” and pleads for the measure “to be applied throughout the department”.
Already required in other municipalities
Other cities, such as Beauchamp and Herblay, have already taken similar orders. This is also the case for Ermont who makes the mask compulsory, from this Wednesday until September 30, on the “perimeter of the Saint-Flaive market” which takes place every Wednesday and Saturday.
In Sarcelles, an order on the wearing of the compulsory mask was taken by the mayor (PS) Patrick Haddad as soon as the Grand Ensemble market reopened in mid-May. Two months later, the vast majority of residents continue to follow the rules in the aisles of one of the largest markets in Ile-de-France.
“Not putting it on is taking the risk of catching the virus!” “
“There is no choice,” says Kural, 53, a bag full of tomatoes in hand. We’re all glued to each other here. Not putting on your mask is taking the risk of catching the virus! “” I don’t even understand how people can come here without their mask, it’s completely unconscious, enrage Thierry, 64 years old. He shouldn’t need to force them or threaten them with a fine! “
Mourad, seller of fruit and vegetables, recalls the excess mortality known in the town during the health crisis. “People were very affected, many have lost relatives, sighs the trader. There is a real fear, an anguish. They don’t want it all to start all over again. “
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