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Summer in France: Expect Bag Checks, Stepped-Up Security
Soldiers and police patrolling beaches and waterways. Catholic bishops searched at a major religious shrine. Fireworks, flea markets, concerts, and sports events cancelled or scaled down. Welcome to summer in France, where the state of emergency has been extended until early next year, after a pair of terrorist attacks last month.
On the Channel, French helicopters are air dropping gendarmes to patrol ferries crossing from Britain, and the government has beefed up the roughly 10,000 soldiers patrolling the country with thousands more reservists. Hundreds of events have been canceled around the country due to security concerns, including a major September flea market in the northern city of Lille.
Others are soldiering on, but without the usual summer insouciance. In Paris, sun worshippers lined up for bag checks before descending to the Paris-Plages. The summer outdoor film festival is also going ahead, only indoors for security reasons.
“The danger isn’t just in France, but everywhere, so we need to keep our heads, and our smiles,” said Parisian retiree Elisabeth Mouillet as she strolled by the Seine River with a friend. “So if there are fewer festivals this summer, well that’s just what is needed to handle today’s reality.”
“I’ve got to enjoy Paris while I can,” said David, a teacher from Perth, Australia, who declined to give his last name. “I’m young enough to be out traveling and if I stayed home because there was some risk, I would never go everywhere. I’ve got to go out and see the world.”
With so many events cancelled, others are making their own summer fun. Crowds of Pokemon Go enthusiasts converge each evening at La Villette, in northern Paris. At a canal nearby, others opt for the more traditional pastimes of boules and picnics.
Street art is also hot. Near the Place de la Republique, where waves of anti-terror demonstrators once gathered, artist Fred Morelli spent the day spray painting a wall with friends, to the beat of hip-hop.。