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Added on the 03/04/2021 14:07:36 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Traffic densifies on the Paris ring road 'la périphérique' on Friday afternoon with people rushing to get home and others rushing to leave the French capital for the Easter weekend. The rush is exacerbated by recent French government restrictions to limit the spread of Covid. IMAGES
Police officers check every vehicle at the entrance to the ring road at the Porte d'Orléans in Paris to avoid departures during the Easter holiday weekend on the 26th day of France's lockdown in the fight against coronavirus. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announces an increase in checks at train stations and airports, and reminds the French population that transport is not permitted for leisure purposes, as a sunny weekend is forecasted across the country. SOUNDBITE
Police and bulldozers continue to demolish tin huts of the Talus 2 shantytown on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte as part of a long-promised operation to combat substandard housing and illegal migration. IMAGES
A bus carrying migrants rescued off the coast of Libya arrives at a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon in southern France. IMAGES