“It’s a completely new New York, even more empty than what the American city has known during the months of confinement with the coronavirus, a city under curfew”, relates Loïc de la Mornais, correspondent for France Télévisions in the United States. This is the first time the large city on the East Coast has experienced a curfew since the end of World War II.
In theory, anyone who is outside after 8 p.m. and before 5 a.m. is likely to be arrested. Police patrol all the streets. Access to strategic places, such as Time Square, are closed. It is the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, who implemented this curfew to avoid the scenes of looting that the metropolis has experienced in recent days, on the sidelines of the demonstrations linked to the death of George Floyd. The curfew is expected to be in effect at least until Sunday, June 7.
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