While on his way to work, Robin experienced a little mishap that he will remember. “Hello, I just had a pretty incredible back-to-school Monday morning. […] I took a € 135 fine for … a kinder bueno “, he wrote on Twitter before giving details of the why and how of this fine, reports our colleagues from Sudinfo.
Passing through the Gare de Lyon in Paris on Monday morning, the young Frenchman, who was going to work and was going to take the metro, bought himself a Kinder Bueno to calm his hunger. To eat it, there is no other choice than to put on your mask, compulsory in public transport in France as well as in Belgium, under your chin for a few moments. A gesture that did not go unnoticed by the plainclothes police who were in the station. “And while I hurtle down the stairs enjoying what will be my breakfast of my morning at work, I hear a lady on the escalator opposite yelling at me in the distance”, tells Robin in her series of tweets, explaining that a man, alongside this woman, also remarks to her, showing her his mask. He throws them a little “Gang of crazy people”, without knowing at that moment that he is dealing with plainclothes policemen.
The latter catch up with him a few moments later, slipping their agent card under his nose. Robin then receives a fine of 135 euros at this time, for non-compliance with wearing a mask in transport. “At the beginning, when they ask me for my identity card, I believe in a control. But no, no time to say a sentence that the fine has already been sent (in 30 seconds)”, writes the young man again, who tried to explain that it was a misunderstanding and that “135 balls of fine for a young not very rich which ate a kinder bueno”, it did not make sense.
Robin’s story was widely shared and commented on on social networks, both by the young man’s “supporters” and by others, who told him that the police were applying the instructions. “I do not denounce an assault, I just tweet an ubiquitous situation because I want to and it stops there too”, he declared a few hours after his first tweet, explaining that what had had it mainly disturbed was the fact that the police were in civilian clothes. “If they were police officers or identified security agents, even if their approach remains stupid (because I eat a Kinder Bueno), obviously I would not have had the same reaction. Because it is their job. But there, I was trapped. By police officers in civilian clothes, zealous, who roam Paris to call to order for anything and everything, while they are not identified as police officers, which clearly can generate conflict. social (on the mask) “.
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