A quarter of motorists test positive in Paris, yet the capital remains the department where they are tested the least in France. We only count four blood alcohol tests per 1,000 inhabitantsaccording to road safety figures. In comparison with other departments, the observation is obvious.
We blow up to a hundred times more into the balloon in Lozère or Cantal for example. These are much less populated departments, so the police have fewer resources to deploy to arrive at these statistics, but this is not the only explanation.
Another lies in a national phenomenon, particularly true in Paris, according to Maître Rémi Josseaume, lawyer specializing in highway code. “In the space of 20 years, preventive controls have almost disappeared in Paris. We thought that video verbalization would educate motorists, except that the reality is quite different. Verbalization without arrest does not make it possible to control alcoholic people or people who have taken drugs. People know this because there is risk taking and this risk taking materializes in a high propensity of people who are controlled under alcohol or drugs,” explains the lawyer.
The Paris police headquarters ensures that more targeted controlswhich would explain the number of positive tests, without providing further details.
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