Frejus. Motorist arrested after defrauding the motorway toll 240 times



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Guilty of having crossed 240 times without paying the toll of Fréjus (Var), while sticking against the car preceding it, a resident of Saint-Raphaël will have to pay a bill of 4,700 euros to avoid prosecution, after

To avoid paying the toll, he simply stuck his vehicle to the car ahead of him. A technique that worked no less than 240 times before this 35-year-old man was finally arrested in flagrante delicto, on the A8 motorway, in the Var, while he was trying to renew this small maneuver. For months, he crossed the toll without paying a penny, said Thursday the Parquet Draguignan, confirming information from the daily Var morning.

This man, a plumber of his condition, was placed in custody as part of a complaint for fraud, filed by the highway company. But the prosecution has filed the complaint, the civil party having accepted the conditions put to the offender: undertake to pay the loss, an amount of 4,700 euros, including handling fees.

Proceedings will only be initiated if the motorist does not pay his debt, for which he will benefit from a schedule. The driver, living in Saint-Raphaël, used to save himself the toll to take the highway towards Nice, not in the course of his work but, said the Prosecutor's Office, "to walk around" .


At each crime scene, the individual was flashed by surveillance cameras, which greatly facilitated his arrest by the police.

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