Moroccan Travelers Face Increased Luggage Checks on French Roads This Summer

"Gendarmerie: our commitment, your safety". This inscription, on the doors of the service vehicles present on Thursday, August 1, 2019, at the Mussidan toll booth on the A89 motorway, also called the Trans-European linking Bordeaux to Lyon which crosses the Dordogne, is synonymous with the determination of the gendarmes to ensure the safety of citizens.

The Dordogne prefecture is the initiator of this operation carried out by gendarmes and customs officers, with the aim of controlling flows and ensuring compliance with the Highway Code.

On the ground, the Périgord gendarmes are omnipresent on many major routes in the department. In the middle of an operation, Sergeant Mickaël, a motorcyclist assigned to the EDSR 24, checked Mohammed, a motorist heading to Morocco with a sedan filled to the brim with parcels and various objects, preventing him from having good visibility, according to the same source.

The soldier explained to the person concerned that the gendarmerie checks a maximum of people, plays the prevention card, before moving on to the repression phase.

But he warned: "The most serious traffic offenses such as speeding, phone use, alcohol and drug driving to avoid tragedies" will be fined without hesitation.