Originally Posted by
Goldorak
So, if I follow you, you would see a logic of not being allowed to go more than 1 km away from your home but being allowed to travel to another EU country ?
It's a lockdown. People are not supposed to go further than 1km from their home (wherever you go somewhere in France or in another country), unless this is for work (and on something that cannot be accomplished remotely in home office mode), family problem, medical treatment, etc.
They don't want people to travel anywhere.
I agree with what was posted above by NickB regarding this issue.
To me, it's a total disgrace to forbid citizens to leave their own country. Very, very few countries are doing this actually. In democratic countries, I think that only Australia, maybe NZ don't allow their citizens to leave due to COVID.
In normal times, only countries like North Korea or Erythrea do such things.
The responsibility of the french government is to prevent the virus from damaging France, and I must say, regarding this matter, they badly failed ! Why would they care about french citizens spreading the virus in foreign countries ?
They only do this because they want to tell the population that one cannot bring the virus from abroad : that's stupid because France is one of the hardest hit country in the world. The virus is not coming from abroad : he is mostly coming from french citizens living in France !
And what about peoples thinking of fleeing definitively this country and never coming back ?! They cannot leave either ?
This is only irresponsible politics. Countries who manage the virus better than us, with efficient testing and isolation, like Germany, discourages travel but don't ban it.
Also, international treaties signed by France (ECHR, Geveva convention for refugees...) totally prohibits governments from forbidding their citizens to leave their own country.
I personally cannot travel for the next weeks/months so it wont hurt me, but I suggest people who are suffering from this, to raise this issue to courts.
They should add a box on the so-called "attestation" for those who are going immediately to a border to leave the country without a "compelling reason".