The French prime minister’s office denied that a coronavirus-related curfew was being reinstated in Paris, after government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced the measure earlier on Tuesday morning, reports Politico.
Attal stated on BFM TV that the government “will restore a curfew in Paris and maybe in the Île-de-France[wider Paris] region.” Asked what time the curfew would begin, he responded “9 p.m., I think,” adding that the interior minister would give details later in the day.
But a curfew is “absolutely not decided at this stage,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement less than an hour later.
In conjunction with the Paris police prefecture and the municipality of Paris, “a decision will be made in the next few days.” According to the statement, the measure would consist of imposing a time at which businesses authorized to open during lockdown would have to close, “in light of certain situations observed in Paris at evening times.”