Did Jean Castex lie during his press conference? Her error pinned: Current Woman The MAG

During the press conference he held on March 18, 2021, Jean Castex announced the reconfinement of several regions for 4 weeks. The Prime Minister also detailed all the new measures that have entered into force throughout France since March 19, 2021, which has not failed to cause many misunderstandings among Internet users. Following his intervention, the head of government was pinned on March 19, 2021 by The Obs concerning a lie he told during his speech.

In fact, Jean Castex tried to justify the government's choice by taking Germany as an example. During his press conference, the Prime Minister, who has just been vaccinated against Covid-19, spoke of a "strict confinement" across the Rhine, which turns out to be false. "Germany, for example, has been in strict containment for three months, closing its nurseries and schools, and now shifts the emergence, given the new effects of the variant, " said Jean Castex during his speech. A sentence actually inaccurate given that it is not a containment "strict" which was decreed in Germany.

Jean Castex: an error that makes Internet users react

In fact, the German government closed its non-essential schools and businesses on December 16, 2020, just as restaurants, bars and cultural places had already been since November 2020. Local restrictions have also been introduced in parallel in the most affected territories by the coronavirus epidemic, in particular with the application of curfews. Subsequently, the schools were partially reopened from February 2021.

Chancellor Angela Merkel even announced a relaxation of these measures in March 2021, as well as the reopening of certain businesses deemed non-essential, such as bookstores and florists for example. So there is no confinement "strict" in Germany since the population is free to go out as they see fit. Thus highlighted, the error of Jean Castex did not take long to make Internet users react on social networks. "No, Germany has never been confined as that word has in France," said on Twitter in particular the correspondent in Germany of the newspaper Le Monde, Thomas Wieder.

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