With deconfinement, covering your face has become the rule. Some people show incivility by throwing their mask and gloves on the ground, and it doesn't work.
Wearing a mask, even gloves for some, became a daily gesture after the deconfinement. Only, some throw them on the ground, constituting an incivility which comes to dirty the streets. In addition, this waste endangers others. Brune Poirson points out in the Sunday Journal than "getting rid of potentially infectious waste by throwing it in the trash is also fighting the spread of the virus", and that the municipal officials who clean the streets are exposed to a risk of contamination when they have to pick up the used masks.
This Sunday, June 7, the Secretary of State to the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition announces "tougher penalties for abandoning waste on the public highway" or in nature. So masks and gloves are concerned, but also cigarette butts, cans, or even food packaging. Brune Poirson wants to pass this offense from a 3rd class ticket to a 4th class ticket.
Currently, the amount of the fine for abandoning waste is 68 euros, and it can be increased up to 180 euros when it is not paid, or when deadlines are not met. With the strengthening of this sanction announced by Brune Poirson, throwing his mask or cigarette butt on the ground will cost 135 euros, which can be increased up to 375 euros. If the police draw up a report and forward it to the court, the amount could even reach 750 euros. Quoted by Franceinfo, Brune Poirson indicates that she will propose "in the next few days this decree for a referral to the Council of State and entry into force in the following weeks".
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by Mélodie Capronnier