This Sunday, an inter-ministerial crisis meeting chaired by the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, was held, which resulted in the total or partial closure of some 200 schools and the issuing of instructions for the educational system, made up of 45,000 schools.

For its part, the Paris Region established traffic restrictions on highways, in view of an episode of heat waves that will bring the thermometers to around 40 degrees Celsius in several areas of the country.

The agency Meteo France placed since yesterday 84 departments under orange alert, the second highest level, a measure from which only territories located between the northwestern Brittany and the northeastern Pas-de-Calais, on the Atlantic coast, have escaped.

Quoted by the press, the Minister for Ecological Transition, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, considered that this is an unprecedented scenario, due to a heat wave that will reach its peak tomorrow or Wednesday.

According to forecasts, the highest temperatures should be recorded this Monday in areas close to the Mediterranean Sea, while in Paris thermometers could reach up to 35 degrees Celsius.

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