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A Frenchman who attempted to walk across the Pyrénées into Spain to buy cheap cigarettes after being turned back from the border due to lockdown restrictions and who fell into a stream, got lost and had to call mountain rescue, has been fined.
The unnamed man was trying to travel from a southern French city to buy cigarettes in Catalonia in northern Spain, where they are cheaper.
He originally attempted to drive but, having been stopped by a police checkpoint, made the journey on foot instead.
However, he fell into a stream, landed in thorny bushes and then got lost and required an emergency rescue, The Guardian reports.
After he was found “exhausted, shivering with cold and lost”, he was fined €135 for breaking lockdown restrictions, French police said.
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