{"id":12989,"date":"2026-06-26T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:23:00","slug":"france-paris-bans-alcohol-due-to-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12989","title":{"rendered":"France: Paris Bans Alcohol Due to Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>authorities in France <\/b>are implementing <b>strict emergency measures<\/b>, as the prolonged <b>situation in French<\/b> authorities are taking strict <b>emergency measures <\/b>, as the prolonged heat wave affecting the country has pushed the <b>hospitals in Paris<\/b> to their limits.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at noon on Friday <strong>, a temporary ban on the consumption of alcohol in public spaces<\/strong>, while the sale of alcoholic beverages in stores is also restricted.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the <b>Paris police <\/b>, <b>Patrice Four<\/b>, stated that the healthcare system has reached a tipping point, with hospital admissions rising steadily due to <b>extreme temperatures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to ease the pressure on hospitals,\u201d he said, explaining <strong>that alcohol consumption combined with the heat wave increases the risk of serious incidents and places an even greater burden on the healthcare system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ban will be in effect from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. the following morning on both Friday and Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, from <b>6:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. <\/b>, the sale of <b>alcohol <\/b>by establishments for consumption off-premises will also be prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><b>Restaurants and caf\u00e9s<\/b> with outdoor seating are exempt from these measures.<\/p>\n<p>According to French Health Minister <b>St\u00e9phanie Rist, <\/b>over the past 24 hours, <b>ambulance services <\/b>in Paris have recorded four times the normal number of cardiac arrests, while it is shocking that cases are even being reported among young people.<\/p>\n<h3>Death toll from the heat wave rises<\/h3>\n<p>The number of <b>deaths from heatstroke <\/b>in France since the start of the heat wave\u2014during which two-thirds of the country is on high alert\u2014 <b>has risen to 55,<\/b> the French government announced today, expressing fears that the <b>toll <\/b>may rise further.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"32042871.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191488\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/32042871.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLast night (Thursday), we were <b>at 55 (drownings) <\/b>but we fear that the situation will not turn out well,\u201d said French Minister of Sports<b> Marina Ferrari on franceinfo tv<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>More than 51 million people have been facing <b>unbearably high temperatures<\/b>, which leads them\u2014especially young people\u2014to seek relief by going <b>swimming<\/b>, including in places that are <b>dangerous <\/b>or unsupervised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities are implementing strict emergency measures, as the prolonged heat wave affecting the country has led hospitals in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}