According to a recent study by the Ministry of the Interior, the Pyrénées-Orientales are among the departments where there have been the most offenses during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the top of the rankings but not for the right reasons. In a recent study carried out between March 2020 and July 2022, the ministerial statistical service for internal security (SSMSI) identified nearly 2.7 million offenses linked to Covid-19 during the state of health emergency in France. And the Pyrénées-Orientales department is among the worst performers, just behind Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Guyana.
DR – SSMSI
75 offenses per 1,000 inhabitants in the P.-O.
Failure to wear a mask, absence of exit certificate, unauthorized travel, false health pass… To deliver its study, the SSMSI calculated the rate of offenses per 1,000 inhabitants in each department. In the Catalan country, this figure rises to 75 crimes per 1,000 people. “In mainland France, Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, Pyrénées-Orientales, Val-d'Oise, Alpes-Maritimes, Val-de-Marne, Seine-et-Marne and Essonne stand out by a greater number of Covid-19 offenses per 1,000 inhabitants. Thus, nearly 75 offenses are counted in the Pyrénées-Orientales, i.e. almost double the number of offenses recorded per inhabitant in France”informs the statistical service.
DR – SSMSI
In this report, we also learn that violations of travel and transport restrictions in the P.-O. are more recorded in border municipalities. During this period, despite the bans, many residents attempted to cross the borders with Spain and the principality of Andorra: “By focusing on offenses linked to travel and transport restrictions at the municipal level, it is the border municipalities such as Le Perthus, Porta, and Porté-Puymorens which display rates well above the departmental average, with more than 500 offenses per 1,000 inhabitants”.
Special mention for Perthus which appears in dark red on the SSMSI map. In the municipality, the number of offenses linked to travel and transport restrictions exceeded 2,159 per 1,000 inhabitants between March 2020 and July 2022.
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