A Renault Mégane RS sporting the same colors and stripes as those of the gendarmerie was arrested for imitation. Its owner faces jail. However, this one chairs a company which transforms cars for the gendarmes, of which this Mégane ostensibly bears the name.
The Drôme gendarmerie (26) congratulated itself on social networks for having checked and immobilized, on a motorway rest area located not far from Valence, a Renault Mégane 3 RS which ” looks like the gendarme staffing vehicle “, according to her. Blue in color and with bright yellow stripes like those of the Mégane RS VRI (Rapid Intervention Vehicles), the offender’s car in question can indeed be mistaken for a police car seen from the rear.
The image published by the gendarmes also shows a real rapid intervention vehicle in the foreground and, in the background, the stern of the famous stopped imitation. Now, except on his chest, the controlled Mégane is flanked in multiple places by the name of the company to which it belongs, especially on its front cover, and nowhere does its body bear the name of the gendarmerie. Therefore, she sports ” exactly the same front / rear screen printing as the rapid intervention vehicle », As the gendarmerie claims?
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The demonstration car of a gendarme supplier
The story of this stopped Mégane is all the more comical, and undoubtedly difficult for its owner to swallow, since it is the demonstration vehicle of the RAS (Rouler, Alerter, Rapport) Distribution company, whose activity is very official transformation of production vehicles for the gendarmes, police and other firefighters! The RS was also on its way to be exhibited at the Solutrans Salon in Lyon, an event dedicated to transformed vehicles, when it was intercepted.
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Six months in prison for the owner
The demonstration Mégane RS from the Montpellier company was immobilized until ” brought into conformity by a mechanic According to the gendarmes, in other words until the removal of at least part of its decoration. Although its owner is an official supplier to law enforcement, Antoine Rafflin, president of RAS Distribution, is the subject of tort proceedings and risk of up to six months in prison and a € 7,500 fine for ” for the offense of public use of a vehicle that could create a misunderstanding with those of the gendarmerie », According to the administrative terms.
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