Motorist accused of deliberately targeting 27-year-old Paul Varry in road rage incident

Ian Brossat, a former Paris councillor and now a senator representing the French Communist party, called for SUVs to be banned in Paris. “This is not the first incident of its kind, and the dangerous nature of SUVs has already been pointed out on several occasions. We owe it to this young man to realise the scale of the problem and draw all the consequences,” Brossat told the Nouvel Obs.

  • SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    142·
    17 days ago

    Why is this so noteworthy? The driver clearly murdered someone. Is it not the norm to be charged with murder there? I was expecting to read about someone who in some freak accident accidentally killed someone, not this deliberately turn towards and drive through them bull shit.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      25·
      17 days ago

      I think the outrage is due to the fact it was a cyclist. You can try driving round Paris and it’ll take years off your life.

      Cycling is a whole different story. Drivers respect cyclists and give them a wide berth; they won’t overtake unless they can leave at least a metre. It’s just the done thing

      Damn right this cunt should have the book thrown at him

      • SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        17 days ago

        So it’s less that the person rightfully was punished and more newsworthy that someone broke that code of conduct? That makes more sense. I think the modem news is making me more cynical than I would like.

        Thanks for the insight!

        • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
          9·
          17 days ago

          That, and also the mayor of Paris is on a massive anti-SUV bender at the moment, hiking up parking charges to discourage people from driving them

          The judge has probably been told to send a message.

          You don’t. Fuckin. Need. An SUV. You. Cunt

          • phar@lemmy.ml
            22·
            17 days ago

            I’ve been to France a few times and what they consider an SUV over here in America we don’t consider to really be an suv. They’re like tiny crossovers. I wonder when they’re trying to get rid of SUVs how many vehicles they’re really trying to get rid of. The “SUV” we got when we rented one was not much different from a medium sized sedan. We could not fit five pieces of luggage.

            • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
              61·
              17 days ago

              You’re absolutely the exception, not the rule

              Take your tiny-penis truck and leave, there’s a good fella

              • phar@lemmy.ml
                1·
                16 days ago

                You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying the article just says SUV. But what does it mean by SUV? Full size SUVs? Because the little SUVs over there are really small and may notnbe what they are talking about. I was commenting on it being unclear, I wasn’t supporting the use of SUVs. Maybe try to piece it together before you insult someone?

                Edit: example- a 2022 BMW X1 is 300mm shorter in length than a 2022 BMW 330xi. So if you ban that SUV, do you ban cars too? What’s the proportions they want to ban?

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      9·
      17 days ago

      I guess because SUVs were named as systemic problem, not just individual case and a call for systemic action against them was issued.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      7·
      16 days ago

      Actually facing jail time for killing someone with a car in France is unusual, that’s probably why

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
    91·
    17 days ago

    carbrained bullshit from the guardian as usual. do they wanna cite statistics or even a source on “many motorists, however, resent the changes”? of course not, evidence-free bothsidesing of vehicular deaths it is