Police and gendarmes enforcing the restrictions have revealed over the past months some of the imaginative reasons and ruses people have used in order to be out and about.
During the earlier lockdown, one man told officers: Im fed up with my wife, I must absolutely go and see my mistress, while another couple said they were out to pick daffodils before the flowers all died. Although visits to food shops are allowed, these must be for the purchase of essential comestibles; police did not consider three lemons for an aperitif to be essential. Another man stopped by officers said he was visiting his grandmother, whose name he could not remember.
One young man stopped on his scooter told police he was making an urgent medical delivery of blood. Indeed, the words urgent blood had been written in red lipstick on his topbox. Inside police found cannabis, cocaine and 800 in cash.