60% of French speed cameras "knocked out."

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An interesting tactic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46822472

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Repel_Max said:

The French were in a program to remove the fixed systems anyway. They are moving to unmarked and largely undetectable and unpredictable mobile units.

See: https://anglophone-direct.com/french-mobile-speed-...

So well done the yellow jacketed thugs. I expect the total number of hidden mobile units will quickly increase from 6,000 to many-many more. Way-Hey!

You miss the point. Speed camera sabotage is just a small tactic of the protest movement. The government can choose to ignore the protest and fight it, or listen and make the speed/revenue/priority argument more transparent and publicly acceptable.

Ignore the protests and act spitefully probably isn't a vote winner overall.

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Poshbury said:

The French government have openly admitted that they reduced the national debt by €438 million in 2017 using speeding fines.

Accountant and politicians. No spin there, then.