Suspended Thursday by the Paris administrative court, the decree making it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors throughout Paris will be replaced by another, less restrictive decree, this Friday, January 14. It will list all the places where the mask must be worn.
“The Ministry of the Interior will issue a new decree to define more precisely the conditions under which the mask must be worn outdoors,” government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Friday, announcing that the State had not appealed the court stay.
He also added “that things had to be defined more finely”, insofar as “what motivated the decision” of the administrative court of Paris is precisely “to say that the obligation to wear a mask was too general” related to a territory as important as the capital.
This Friday, the Paris police headquarters – at the request of the Ministry of the Interior – will therefore have to announce in which public places and spaces, in particular very busy places, the wearing of a mask will again be compulsory.
The measure was deemed “excessive”
The day before, Thursday January 13, the administrative court of Paris had indeed suspended the prefectural decree making it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors everywhere in the capital, in force since December 31.
The same decision was taken on Wednesday by the Administrative Court of Versailles, which considered that the measure carried “an excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate interference […] to individual liberty”