Toulouse. Three City vehicles destroyed in an arson attack: the targeted ZFE?
By Laurent Derne
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It’s not just SUV tire deflators who roam the streets of Toulouse at night. There are also some arsonists. Evidenced by this night intervention Pavée side districtIn Toulouse.
Fire at 3 a.m.
On the night of Friday October 7 to Saturday October 8, 2022, the emergency services were alerted to 3 a.m. for an ongoing fire, at the corner of rue Lartet and avenue Jean-Rieux.
On the spot, the police observed the presence of three city vehicles of Toulouse degraded by fire. As a source close to the investigation points out, they also discovered a tag with flowery language: “Nik la ZFE”.
Who blames the ZFE?
The first part of the message being quite explicit, the second concerns the Low Emission Zone set up since last March in Toulouse.
The purpose of this device is to reduce pollution in Toulouse by restricting access to certain axes and to the city center to the most polluting vehicles. The EPZ will apply gradually until 2024. A term, approximately 42,000 vehiclesi.e. 16.15% of the rolling stock, should be affected by the ban.
Obviously, if the claim is directly related to the gesture, the application of the ZFE makes some teeth cringe…
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