On April 7, 2022, the automatic radar of Céreste-en-Luberon (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) was deliberately set on fire, and the two suspects were found guilty by the courts of the crime of damage or deterioration by an organized gang of the property of others by a means dangerous to people. To be more precise, it was the Toulouse criminal court which sentenced them, on November 19, 2024, to two and three years of imprisonment with a simple suspended sentence. Added to this are additional penalties: ban on carrying or possessing a weapon for 5 years and confiscation of property used to commit the offense.
“An important decision”
In a press release, Marc Chappuis, prefect of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, greets “an important decision“by completing his remarks:”The sentence imposed is in proportion to the serious endangerment that this damage to radars imposes on road users in the territory. This legal decision supports the actions that we are implementing in the department to fight against delinquency and road insecurity.“
At the same time, the prefecture would like to point out that the damage to a radar is an offense which therefore results in registration in the criminal record: up to €15,000 fine and a community sentence for displaying stickers. , made graffiti, obscured or covered the windows of a radar; up to €75,000 fine and five years in prison for destroying or damaging it; and up to €100,000 fine and seven in prison if the action was carried out by a masked group or individual.
