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Disproportional fines

Fraud must be monitored. This costs RATP €171 million in revenue per year. The equivalent of 23 metro trains, and the need for public transport has never been greater. It’s also a matter of respect for actual users, who are paying increasingly more for tickets and are sometimes surprised to see stowaways jumping turnstiles in front of averted eyes of ticket inspectors.

But many of the testimonies from travelers who have been sanctioned, although they have a transport ticket and can prove their good faith, are of a completely different nature. How can one not be outraged that a young man was fined for agreeing to change places with a first class passenger? The situation is Kafkaesque. Since when did providing favors and showing sympathy become illegal? What harm would it do to a company that, let’s remember, works with customers and prides itself on treating them as such? Doing otherwise causes a huge sense of injustice, even indignation in the spirit of “double standards.”

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Source: Le Parisien

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