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A recent report from the French Ministry of Transport highlights the growing success of the speed camera network.

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According to the report, the cameras picked up over 25 million infractions in 2016, an increase of over 20% on the previous year, and a new annual record.

Revenues from the cameras has reached around €1 billion a year, ten times the figure generated in 2005, and more than half of all revenues generated from road traffic offences.

Much of the increase is down to the wider deployment of the cameras, with the number on the roads having quadrupled since 2005 to around 4,700 in 2018.

The cameras are also more reliable, precise and versatile, with more extensive use in recent years of mobile, autonomous cameras (pictured) that are being used where roadworks are taking place. The cameras can operate in both directions and they are also able to discriminate between different types of vehicles.

Whereas in 2015 the autonomous cameras flashed around 80,000 times, in the last couple of years the figure has bounded to over 1 million drivers flashed.

Drivers in France have dubbed the cameras “sérial flasheurs”, such is the frequency with which drivers are being caught by them.

Some of the cameras are now also being deployed where there is otherwise the need to slow down traffic on a temporary basis.

In the overwhelming majority of cases the presence of a fixed speed camera is indicated by a roadside sign, but the distance between the sign and the camera itself can vary from several hundred metres to 2 kilometres. There may also be more than one camera on the stretch of road, although they may only be signalled by one notice.

The use of specific equipment to detect radars or other equipment that gives the location of radars is outlawed in France.

Foreign Vehicles

Of course, a flashing camera does not always end up with the driver being fined, either due to the plates not being clearly visible, an inability to trace the driver, or because it was a foreign registered vehicle. Around 25% of French registered vehicles and over 30% of foreign registered vehicles that are flashed escape a fine due to an inability to enforce.

Since 2013, agreements have been reached with a growing number of countries in Europe to supply driver address details, so that they can be sent a penalty notice, with enforcement possible in their own country. The UK opted out of the directive, but it was extended to them in May 2017 by virtue of a ruling in the European Court of Justice, for UK drivers speeding in Europe. The DOT has stated publicly it will not apply it after Brexit. See an earlier article we wrote on the issue at Cross-Border Driving Offences.

Departmental Records

Those departments heading up the list with the greatest number of infractions are Paris, Rhône and Alpes Maritimes, which between them clocked up over 2 million flashes.

By contrast, those departments with the lowest number of flashes were the Lot, Hautes Pyrénées and Aveyron, who collectively had 88,000 flashes. Not only is the amount of traffic lower in these areas, but they generally have far fewer cameras installed on the roads.

Nevertheless, the most cautious drivers (or most ineffective cameras?) are to be found in the department of Sarthe (Pays de la Loire) where the 22 cameras installed only each flashed an average of 1,560 times.

The highest rates per camera were located in Seine Saint Denis (Ile-de-France), where each of the 15 cameras flashed an average of nearly 30,000 times.

Blackspots

Most of the best performing cameras are generally located on motorway networks, where traffic is higher and a change in the maximum speed limit is often indicated. Others occur in those locations where roadworks are taking place.

The most successful camera last year was located on the A9 autoroute at Montpellier, direction Perpignan, where the speed limit had been reduced from 100km/hr to 90km/hr, and where the camera flashed 159,200 times.

The top twenty of the best performing cameras is shown on the table below.

Source: Sécurité Routière

If you are caught speeding then the level of the fine and nature of the punishment depends on the gravity of the offence, ranging from €45 (if paid promptly) to €1500. The highest fine is only payable if you are exceeding the speed limit by more than 50km/h, when you may also incur suspension of your licence for up to three years and six points on the licence (out of 12), confiscation of the vehicle and mandatory attendance on a driving course.

Although EU nationals resident in France are not required to drive on a French licence, those who suffer a points penalty are required to obtain one. In practice, this does not always occur for, as is so often the case in France, the administrative and judicial apparatus cannot keep pace with the laws they are supposed to implement.

In July this year the maximum speed limit on roads without a central reservation is being reduced from 90km/h to 80km/h, and there is every prospect that many drivers will be caught out by this measure.

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Last month, a 15-year-old boy called Yuriy was beaten senseless by a gang of youths in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The attack made national headlines for three reasons: it was caught on camera; the victim was white; the 15th arrondissement is not usually the setting for such violence.

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The political, celebrity and media elite expressed their outrage as footage of the attack went viral. The French footballer Antoine Griezmann, for example, tweeted his support for the teenager, as did Gérald Darmanin, the Interior Minister, and the city mayor Anne Hidalgo.

It has subsequently been alleged that there was more to the attack than first relayed by the media. According to prosecutors, Yuriy had a screwdriver on his person when he was attacked and there are allegations he may have been a member of a rival gang.

In the same week that Yuriy was accosted, a 13-year-old boy was badly beaten and nearly thrown under the wheels of the car. Fortunately the driver managed to brake hard as the youth tumbled in front of her vehicle. This attack did not make the news. It happened a few hundred yards from where my ex-wife works as a teacher in a state school in Seine-Saint-Denis. The boys involved were all in her class.

She is understandably cynical about the media and political coverage devoted to the unfortunate Yuriy. Had he been African or living in Seine-Saint-Denis she wonders whether his beating would have made the news, with or without its capture on camera. It takes a killing for the media to take notice of Seine-Saint-Denis, like the murder of 13-year-old Aboubakar, battered to death in a gang fight in 2018. At the time a local councillor complained: 'This death was avoidable since we have alerted the state detailing the situation. Letters, rallies, more letters, all in vain... we live in an era of political disconnection.'

Seine-Saint-Denis is a deprived and, for most Parisians, an alien suburb in the north of the city. Where it not for the fact that the national football stadium, the Stade de France, is situated in Seine-Saint-Denis, few of the capital's inhabitants would ever venture there.

It's when the violence intrudes into the more upmarket districts of Paris that it makes the national news. The mayor of the 15th arrondissement, Philippe Goujon, said after Yuriy's attack: 'As elsewhere, it's a gang phenomenon, but what's new is that such acts are becoming more and more violent.'

Six youngsters were killed in gang clashes in 2017 and 2018, and Marwan Mohammed, a sociologist, said recently: 'It's impossible to confirm if there's an increase in violence or an upsurge in gang membership because we haven't the means to compile a social and geographical profile of the clashes.'

What does distinguish the 21st century Parisian gangs — police estimate there are 46 in the Greater Paris area, 15 of which are in the capital — is what Thomas Sauvadet, a professor in youth sociology describes as the 'collective narcissism' behind the violence, which 'compensates for all the misery of the gang members'.

My ex-wife agrees. She told me that the children who tried to kill their classmate are impoverished, aggressive and inarticulate, unable to express themselves in any way other than through violence. Fighting gives them a thrill and belonging to a gang provides them with an identity.

This is a growing phenomenon in France. Today's Figaroreports that there were 357 gang clashes in Metropolitan France in 2020, a 24 per cent increase on the previous year, and the paper states that the number of minors arrested for violence in France has rocketed from 24,000 in 1996 to 57,000 in 2018.

Marwan Mohammed blames social media for this sharp rise. 'A message on Snapchat can alert and mobilise dozens of people in an instant,' he says, and then, when the fight erupts, it's filmed and broadcast on the same platform.

To meet the growing violence, four police units were established in April 2019 to specifically respond to the 'problems of security' in Parisian schools. It's an admirable initiative but one my ex-wife believes is doomed to failure. The children she teaches are becoming ever more violent with one another. The problem she says is that this is a generation who have been raised not by parents but by a mobile phone. That's who they answer to, that's whose approval they seek, by brutalising one of their peers and then uploading it onto their phone.