Yellow vests. The degradation of the radars cost the State a "little less than 500 million euros"

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, asked about the cost of degradation of radars, said they amounted to "a little less than 500 million euros."

500 million euros. It is the cost of the degradation of the radars imputed to the yellow Vests according to Christophe Castaner, questioned by Jean-Jacques Bourdin on BFMTV , this Wednesday, August 28th. In March, he said that in the fleet of 3,200 fixed speed cameras, 75% of them had been "either destroyed, damaged, attacked or neutralized" since the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement last November.

Christophe Castaner: "We will repair the few radars that were destroyed" pic.twitter.com/2WODGNsOXC

Rather than repair, the ministry decided to replace them with new turret radars, capable of flashing 32 vehicles at a time and perched four meters high to be more resistant. Yet since the first installations, degradations of these "super-radars" have multiplied everywhere in France.

"They will be repaired because they save lives"

For the Minister of the Interior, who did not want to quantify these deteriorations, only "some" of these new radars were damaged. "They will be repaired because they save lives" . For the tenant of the place Beauvau, all these neutralized equipment, "these are mostly lives that have not been saved . "

Last March, the minister was already making the link between road mortality and radar damage. According to him, "in December, there were 4 times more offenses on a masked radar than in normal times. In the end, it's dead, " he said at the time.

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