AdvertisementA deafening emptiness echoed through the streets of Paris tonight as a draconian 6pm curfew brought in to suppress the spread of Covid-19 forced people across France to hunker down at home. The curfew ordering people indoors and businesses to shut was brought forward two hours to 6pm and lasts until 6am tomorrow. Renaud Piarroux, an epidemiologist at a hospital in Paris, said the curfew would have little impact in curtailing the new variants, which he believed would predominate within six weeks. Police also intervened to break up an illegal rave near the Paris demonstration, Darmanin said in a tweet. Other recent incidents caught on camera have shown Paris police using violence to tear down a migrant camp.

Source: Daily Mail January 16, 2021 22:15 UTC