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"Anecdotal evidence of les flics reveals that the police rigurously enforce speed limits and show no mercy. They are known to have forcibly removed warning devices, confiscating and actually destroying them on the spot. This in addition to marching offending drivers to a cashpoint to collect a fine on the spot and well known accounts of instant magistrate court appearances at the roadside and instant jail sentences in the most extreme cases".
You are talking about radar/laser detectors here, they have been illegal here for years.
The recent knee-jerk reaction to the fact that the road fatality figure had not come down to that promised by our bonsai president has resulted in this recent change in the law regarding gps -type instruments with the speed camera warnings.. A just about unenforceable law because police, gendarmes etc are not authorised to enter your car or rummage about within your garmin or whatever to find out whether you have enabled your speed camera option or not. However, the douanes (customs) are authorised, and a simple foil for this is to activate the password function on the device and if you get stopped, just switch the thing off, when switched on again it will require the password( that you just forgot) to activate it-simples!
Most people here are just ignoring all this BS and it will probably go away if Sarko doesn't get elected president in March and gets his old job back as the car park attendant at the Elysee palace.
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