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Ban kicks in at noon on Friday as police chief says hospitals in the French capital have reached ‘saturation point’

Parisians will ⁠be temporarily banned ​from drinking alcohol in public as hospitals in the capital buckle under a deadly heatwave ‌gripping France ‌and much of Europe.

“We are reaching a saturation point in hospital facilities,” the head of Paris police, Patrice Faure, said on Thursday. He warned the new measures, which include a ban on alcohol takeaway sales, were needed to stem increasing hospitalisations.