12/28/2014
France, Italy: Speed Cameras Decorated, Defaced Vigilantes display the Christmas spirit by decorating speed cameras in France, spraypainting them in Italy.
Festive vigilantes in La Couronne, France decorated a speed camera on Christmas Eve. Charente Libre reported that garlands were draped over the camera on the RN10 on Wednesday, but police were quickly dispatched to remove them. On Friday, bright yellow spraypaint covered the speed camera in Port-Sainte-Marie. According to Sud Ouest, the automated ticketing machine on the RN813 is the fourth camera to be attacked in the area since September.
In Casier, Italy, vigilantes disabled a recently installed speed camera using black spraypaint, La Tribuna di Treviso reported.