Bikers sound the alarm

Angry bikers demonstrated this weekend at the call of the FFMC, which launched a cry of alarm on the eve of a national vote against the automatic sanction control.

"Road safety is in danger", notes the French Federation of angry motorcyclists, which launches a "cry of alarm": "to ignore education and training is to condemn our country to know to a new rise in accidentology. Scuttling the public service of Equipment by transferring the management and maintenance of 20,000 km of national roads to the departments, is to condemn our road network to a certain deterioration in the departments which will not have the means to assume this load is causing a certain rise in the number of accidents. Motorized two-wheelers will still pay the heaviest price ".

The objective of the 55 demonstrations organized this weekend throughout France was to "show, one week before the regional elections, that bikers are citizens", specifies the Defense Committee "rights and freedoms" set up by the FFMC: "they act for road safety based on the training and empowerment of drivers and refuse that justice and freedoms be called into question".

"Bikers do not die, we kill them!", We could hear this afternoon in Paris, where nearly 3000 bikers (1500 according to the police, 6000 according to the organizers) gathered in Vincennes.

After a halt on the ring road in front of an automatic radar protected by a CRS cordon, preventing the FFMC from wearing it with the euro symbol, the procession stopped at Place Denfert-Rochereau to burn a mannequin and helmets, during that the sound system was playing – not loud enough! – the Song of the supporters, Motivated version, while accusing the ministers of transport and the interior of "preferring communication to real road safety measures based on the training of drivers".

Three fake surveillance cameras were then installed at the corner of St-Michel and St-Germain boulevards on the route of line 38, on which an experimental project of on-board cameras to monitor bus lanes is still under study..

The deputy mayor in charge of transport Denis Baupin, qualified as "green ayatollah", was thus able to measure all the sympathy carried by Parisian bikers to the "new" socialist municipality which, when it does not persist in pedestrianizing the districts alive to make dormitories with sores or to build new office towers, strives to kick motorized two-wheelers out of the bus lanes (open to taxis and bicycles) despite all safety (read in particular)…

The FFMC estimates that "30,000 motorcyclists" demonstrated this weekend. It will be received on March 23 by Nicolas Sarkozy (read) to "bring the refusal of the bikers of a society under surveillance where freedoms are violated". She is also launching a national petition to "demand road education measures from an early age and throughout compulsory education, regular prevention and road safety awareness campaigns by the mainstream media, the State’s responsibility for maintaining the national road network and the means necessary for its improvement and stopping the automatic sanction control ".

Eric MICHEL

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