Paris, 1 Dec (EFE).-discos and night clubs where they serve alcohol in France must have as of today of alcoholometers available to the client, after entry into force of a new Government policy to prevent accidents of traffic.
The measure requires these establishments to have chemical or electronic alcoholometers, customers may be required to learn about their State of intoxication, indicated in a joint statement the ministries of transport, Interior and health.
With the rules becomes effective one day before French President Nicolas Sarkozy, announced before next spring, all vehicles will have to compulsorily take an alcoholometer to prevent his boot in case of giving positive.
Gallic Government hopes, by means of a distinctive located just off of the premises where you can read “blow and will know”, that “widespread the gesture of self-control”.
The measure comes weeks before the holidays of the year, where traditionally occur more arrests by cases of drunkenness to the steering wheel.
In France, where the authorized maximum is 0.25 mg per litre of air helmet, the same as in Spain, killed 1,150 people in 2010, more than half of whom did so a week-end.
It’s a problem that closely touches young people, already that each week the roads of France charged life of a score of people aged between 15 and 24, recalled the Executive note.
