Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has acted on his warning that the curfew in France would be more strictly policed after new measures came into force to combat the spread of coronavirus.

On Sunday following the announcement, border crossings and 743 public places were checked and 62,198 people out after curfew were stopped. As a result, a total of 11,955 people were fined in one day.

So far police in France have already carried out more than 600,000 checks and fined nearly 60,000 people for breaching coronavirus curfew rules, Mr Darmanin said.

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