Newspaper.com: France: Speed Cameras Sprayed, Smashed

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France: Speed Cameras Sprayed, Smashed
Vigilantes take out eleventh camera within the space of a year in Toulouse, France. Le Tronquay camera spraypainted.

Vigilantes spraypainted the lens of a speed camera in Le Tronquay, France on Monday. The automated ticketing machine on the provincial road 572 toward Bayeux was unable to issue citations, Ouest-France reported.  http://www.ouest-france.fr/ofdernmin_-Le-radar-automatique-du-Tronquay-degrade-a-la-bombe_40771-1685866-pere-bno_filDMA.Htm

On Tuesday, a speed camera in Toulouse was toppled and its inner workings destroyed, La Depeche reported. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/02/11/1011034-Un-onzieme-radar-detruit.html   A pair of fifteen-year-olds rammed the device on the Henri Desbals Street with an Opel Corsa. Police happened to catch a suspect as he returned to the scene to retrieve his mobile phone. In the Haute-Garonne region, a total of eleven cameras have been attacked in the past year.

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