Testimonies concerning RATP agents using heavy-handed methods or lacking discernment are increasing. The stopover for this Bordeaux woman and her family in Paris cost them 200 euros per day in transport tickets alone.

“I feel like I’ve been extorted”: are bus and metro controllers doing too much?. ‘I put the ticket of my first daughter, who passes, then of my second too. But when it's my turn, mine doesn't work, and neither does my husband's'