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N. Bonzom / Maxele Presse

  • Twelve loudspeakers have been installed in Béziers (Hérault) by the town hall to track down those who show incivility.

  • When the CCTV cameras detect an offender, a pre-recorded awareness message will be broadcast to his attention.

  • Among the offenses targeted by this device, small damage, throwing garbage on the ground, walking around with inappropriate clothing, or a group of people who do not wear masks but also canine droppings.

Twelve loudspeakers were installed in Béziers (Hérault), by the town hall of Robert Ménard (various right), to track down those who show incivility.

Thus, when the municipal police officers detect an offender via CCTV cameras, an awareness message, among fifteen pre-recorded, will be broadcast to his attention.

And if the person does not deign to repair his incivility on the spot, the agents will be authorized to intervene on the spot, learned

20 Minutes

, with the services of the city.

A device that exists elsewhere, in France.

For canine droppings

Among the offenses targeted by this device, minor damage, throwing garbage on the ground, walking around with inappropriate clothing, or a group of people who do not wear masks.

The city also plans to use these loudspeakers to alert an offender of the curfew, or of possible confinement.

But also… for dog droppings.

It is this incivility that the town hall has chosen to promote its device, in an astonishing video broadcast on social networks.

We see, in a thrilling mini-thriller (or not), a passerby, who has let her dog relieve himself in a square without picking up his excrement, being taken to task by a voice.

Spoiler: she seems to not care, a police patrol is sent on the spot ...

❌Canine droppings on site, it's a € 68 fine!


📢The City of # Béziers has equipped 12 loudspeakers in the town linked directly to the Operational Monitoring Center.

📢 pic.twitter.com/8yg5t0Z8Wr

- City of Béziers (@VilleDeBeziers) January 11, 2021

This is not the first time that Robert Ménard's town hall has tackled dog droppings head-on.

In 2016, she wanted to set up a DNA file of dogs, to find the unscrupulous owners.

The device had been retoked by the administrative court.

Three years later, the town hall asked residents to take pictures of the droppings in the streets, to send them… to the prefect.

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