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Added on the 16/01/2021 20:16:57 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police officers check vehicles on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris to ensure that curfew rules are being respected in the French capital on New Year's Eve. IMAGES
The last passers-by rush to take the metro, while restaurants close their doors in Place de la Bastille in Paris a few minutes before curfew takes effect, a measure taken for at least four weeks by the government after an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases. IMAGES
The river brigade patrols the canal Saint-Martin in Paris to prevent large crowds from forming again after police had to intervene on Monday evening to disperse gatherings, prompting a ban on alcohol consumption on the river banks. IMAGES
France's largest squat - which has housed up to 450 migrants, most of them legal migrants according to associations - is being evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris, 100 days ahead of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES