France imposes six-week Covid curfew

President Emmanuel Macron has placed Paris and eight other large cities under a nightly curfew to try and stem a second wave of Covid-19


CITIES UNDER CURFEW, 9pm-6am
Lille
Rouen
Paris and Île-de-France
FRANCE
Lyon
Saint-Étienne
Grenoble
Montpellier 
Toulouse
Aix-Marseille

Around 20m people affected, third of total population


DAILY CHANGE IN NEW FRENCH COVID-19 CASES (1,000s)
 
30 	First  wave	Second wave
20 
10
0	Feb 29		Oct 14
        
     
CURFEW DURATION

OCTOBER 	NOVEMBER 	DECEMBER
                                                                                                   Four weeks from Oct 17		Government applying for extension to Dec 1


FRANCE’S PEACETIME CURFEWS

1961: Curfew on “French Muslims” in Paris during Algerian War. Police massacre large number of protestors

1985: Curfew ordered in New Caledonia in Pacific Ocean, during violent independence protests

2005: Curfews enforced in more than 30 French towns and cities after two weeks of night-time rioting

2018: Overnight curfew across Reunion island in Indian Ocean in response to violent Yellow Vest protests


Sources: Reuters, Financial Times, Connexion
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