PV sulphators: caregivers penalized

Self-employed for 10 years, Julina Destilice, a liberal nurse in Hauts-de-Seine, would not have imagined one day refusing patients because of parking. In principle with her caduceus, she can park for free in paid spaces, but she rarely finds them. He therefore sometimes parks in delivery spaces. Regularly fined, she ended up choosing her patients, based on their address.

“I ask clients where they live and depending on whether I take them or not. A fine of 135 euros for a 7 euro treatment is not worth it”

Julina Destilice, liberal nurse in Hauts-de-Seine

In the eye of 8 p.m.

Because for several years, it has been drowning in fines. In her office in Rueil Malmaison, she displays more than twenty of them on her desk. She never even counted them “that will make me cry” she said. The nurse considers that this is unfair and that she Don’t park badly on purpose. In 2022, she even had more than 2,000 euros seized from her bank account.

The LAPI system, a nightmare for motorists

Since 2018, fines have been managed by the municipalities which themselves set the price of fines, which have become FPS, post-parking package. They can entrust the fines to municipal agents, but also to private companies which use cars with a system called (LAPI) automatic reading of license plates. But these rolling robots with their cameras on the roof, also called PV sulfate machines, see neither the caduceus nor the cards of people with disabilities.

A caduceus that has become obsolete

In Toulouse, Karen Jeuland saw this to her cost. Suffering from a chronic illness, before, thanks to her badge, she parked without worry. Today his macaron is no longer of any use to him. Like many in her case, she says she was not warned of the need to register with the town hall. DSince the LAPI system, she has also been accumulating fines. She even had to borrow to pay them and the appeals left her little hope.

“The impact is enormous, I started receiving several fines per day and I had to advance more than a thousand euros”

Karen Jeuland social worker with disabilities Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)

In the eye of 8 p.m.

For cities that have invested in these radar cars, parking has become a godsend.

According to these documents that we have obtained, each year the profits increase:

2.7 million revenues in 2021, 3.3 million in 2023 and nearly 6 million expected this year for the metropolis of Toulouse. To avoid errors, after being scanned, the plates of parked cars are checked in a control room. But by the admission of a city official, certain professions are harmed.

Before, when we were on foot and we saw a note on the caregivers’ windshield, we had the freedom to say, it’s okay, we’ll leave you alone. Now this is no longer possible.

An anonymous Toulouse city agent

In the eye of 8 p.m.

Contacted, the Toulouse town hall specifies that agents must deactivate the LAPI system when approaching disabled places, that no quantified objective is requested from the teams, the aim, according to it, being to better share public space.

AMONG OUR SOURCES:

https://www.budget.gouv.fr/files/uploads/extract/2023/PLR/CAS/PGM/753/FR_2023_PLR_CAS_PGM_753_STRAT.html

Electronic minutes | ANTAI.gouv.fr

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