In this summer period, incivilities multiply in the cities with the influx of tourists as in the Gard, in Nîmes where the municipal police force multiplies the road checks to sanction bad behavior.
Friday July 16 at 9 p.m., the city police take over a boulevard in the city center of Nîmes. That evening, ten agents were mobilized. The objective of these municipal police officers is to prevent recurring offenses during the summer. In the viewfinder of the police in particular, two-wheelers. And often scooter riders who don’t wear gloves.
“We have a lot of excuse that it’s hot, but the highway code is the highway code and the wearing of gloves is compulsory as well as the helmet”, indicates this Nîmes municipal policeman. Result: € 45 fine for the driver and his passenger who will leave on foot. “ I thought it was the one who was driving who had to wear gloves “.
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Speeding, wild parking, dangerous driving. Every summer, offenses increase in the city center.
“The idea is to make a reminder and according to verbalize.
There is only the verbalization in road matters which makes it possible to ease off these virulent individuals of the wheel.
The police will then stop a vehicle. Its driver, from the suburbs of Lyon, was driving without insurance, and did not have his license with him. He will be arrested and taken to the police station with the agreement of a judicial police officer. After verification, the individual had never obtained his license and was wanted for several traffic offenses. That evening, around thirty drivers were fined.
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