Cities of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne are concerned.
Several managers of establishments in the Paris region were “arrested” or “summoned” and “clients fined” this Saturday, the Prefecture of Police said on Twitter.
The first establishment concerned, located in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne), has been put on notice.
“The police fined about thirty people in a hookah bar, customer and employees,” said the prefecture. The bar, whose name we do not know, was put “on formal notice” “for unlawful opening of an establishment open to the public and non-compliance with barrier gestures”.
The Prefecture also cited establishments organizing “clandestine evenings” on the night from Saturday to Sunday, in the towns of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), as well as in Drancy, Bobigny and Aubervilliers, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Given the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced this Thursday that bars and restaurants, closed since October 30, will not be able to reopen before “at least mid- February”.
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