Besançon, France, Aug 11, 2026 (AFP) - Freewheeling UK family fined for French road toll dodge

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Members of a British family who for months had avoided paying French motorway tolls by simply lifting the barrier at toll booths have been stopped in eastern France, police said Tuesday. The operators of the A36 autoroute on Saturday alerted police to a suspected fraud at a toll booth near the city of Belfort, not far from the Swiss border. At the next toll booth, "a person got out of one of the three cars, raised the barrier to let the vehicles......

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