sophie X, engineer in the public sector, understands perfectly that an organization like RATP fights against fraud, which, each year, makes it lose some 170 million euros in revenue, the equivalent of the price of Twenty metro trains. But it does not admit that controllers sanction an involuntary offense. Justice has just proved him right.
On July 9, 2021, this Bordeaux fifties was in Paris, to go to Saône-et-Loire. Arrival in Montparnasse, she takes a bus (91) which leads to the Gare de Lyon. This one, double, with bellows, is crowded; Loaded with two suitcases, she can only rush into it through a middle door. She composts a cardboard ticket, bought during a previous stay in the capital. But it is not validated, because, obviously, demagnetized. “I wanted to go see the driver, to point him out, but the passengers standing in the corridor prevented me from moving forward,” she says.
Halfway, a team of three controllers inflicts a contravention, despite their explanations, and the support of other travelers. “Do they touch bonuses?” Wonders M Me x, furious at what they “did not even want to check the condition of the other tickets” of his notebook . Yes, responds to the world the RATP: these teams benefit from a “collective premium”, when their verbalizations correspond to the objectives that Ile-de-France Mobilités, organizing public transport authority of Ile-de-France set. But this premium “represents a few tens of euros” only each month.
“refusal to comply”
The controllers advise M me x to immediately settle his “lump sum indemnity”, failing which it will be increased by “record fees”, which the RATP fixed to the maximum authorized By A decree of May 3, 2016 , or 50 euros, in order to dissuade deferred payments. She has indeed found that half of the addresses left by those who do not pay usual are false.
The law of March 22, 2016 known as “Savary” has provided a system for verifying identities which are given, thanks to the creation of an exchange platform between transport operators and social benefits organizations, But this one has not yet emerged.
Like M me x oppose it, the agents ask him for address and identity, to send him their report (PV) of offense. She refuses to answer. They call a judicial police officer, who sends a police officer to raise his identity. What earned him an additional fine, for “ Refusal to comply “, and new case costs.
M x disputes the PV, within the legal period of three months. But, without respecting the latter, the RATP transmitted them to the Bordeaux police court, who instructed the public treasury to recover them, with a new increase. Total: 444 euros, of which M x pays, before protesting with the public prosecutor of his city.
Why being “hard” to verbalize a traveler whose ticket has demagided, while the RATP indicates itself that, each year, “five million cardboard tickets are demagged”, and that it For this reason in particular, announced their disappearance, the August 30, 2021 ? The prosecutor cancels the proceedings against him. And, the 1 er mars, Sophie X receives from the public treasury a check for 444 euros.