France in Focus

I have just heard on the grape vine that a local brit who has been here for years has been done for driving around on UK plates and fined 2K€.

I can only think of one word, 4 letters, starts and ends with "T" but then he must have known the risk he was taking.

Considering the huge numbers that have done it here in Brittany I have always thought the cops here couldn't be arsed.

Hotrodder wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:00 am I have always thought the cops here couldn't be arsed.

Perhaps someone reported him or he was involved in some sort of altercation.

Blaze wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 9:48 am I can only think of one word, 4 letters, starts and ends with "T" but then he must have known the risk he was taking.

Yeah, I think he was A twit

Those cars with (out of date) road tax discs still fixed to their windowscreens are a dead giveaway ..

suein56 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:28 pm Those cars with (out of date) road tax discs still fixed to their windowscreens are a dead giveaway ..

So they should be seeing that the last discs were issued in Sept 2015!

The question now arises, in my mind, as to whether or not the French authorities start investigating when this vehicle arrived in France and could they impose import duty, VAT and the rest of the shebang that has started since Brexshit

Limoges airport car park always has plenty of them. All the gendarmes have to do is walk round. Leaving a UK registered car here to fly to the UK is a giveaway.

I suspect MoT and insurance - or lack thereof - may have been an issue?