Road safety – FFMC calls for the cancellation of a stupid law –

FFMC calls for the annulment of a stupid law

Road safety - FFMC calls for the cancellation of a stupid law -

Faced with the hardening of the crackdown on unbridling, a new fad of a government which no longer knows what to invent to keep its fellow citizens in a state of permanent fear, the FFMC calls for the annulment of this law described as "stupid".

In accordance with what the Interministerial Road Safety Committee (IRB) announced this summer (read), the National Assembly has just adopted as part of the "draft law relating to transport security and development"a series of ultra-repressive measures against unbridling.

Thus, while bikers around the world can freely choose their motorcycle according to their experience or their desires, French professionals who would risk returning a machine to its original state (with regard to European legislation) will continue to suffer full force of the Franco-French legislation limiting the power of motorcycles to 100 horses: "importing, displaying, offering, offering for sale, selling, offering for hire or inducing the purchase or use of a motorized moped, motorcycle or quadricycle that has not not received or which no longer conforms to it is punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros".

For good measure, the vehicle of the offense could of course be seized and sold at auction (read) while the nasty bad delinquents could see the following additional penalties applied: suspension of the license for a period of three years, "confiscation of the thing which was used or was intended to commit the offense, or of the thing which is the product thereof"and"ban (…) from exercising the professional or social activity in the exercise (…) of which the offense was committed, for a period of five years".

"To thus assimilate to a serious offense the jailbreaking by informed users (holder of a license) who can very legally use vehicles of more than 100 horses everywhere else in the world is of a rare stupidity", estimates the French Federation of angry motorcyclists (FFMC) which does not mince its words and asks parliamentarians to"seize now the Constitutional Council in order to annul this stupid law".

In the meantime, at the rate of diminishing freedoms in France, let us hope that the members of the FFMC do not see themselves struck by a "ban from exercising their social activity" !

Eric MICHEL

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