Giorgio Marcon, an electronics expert, is a “technical investigative consultant” by profession. He works in the Legal Protection Center which assists motorists in appealing against speed cameras throughout Italy. And in his cases he has “over 90% of victories”, he says today in an interview with National newspaper. Because according to him «no speed camera in Italy is compliant. Not even Photored, breathalyzers and cameras that monitor entry into restricted traffic zones, could issue fines.” He studied the topic by buying a speed camera and dismantling it «to understand how it works. I also have a tool to check breathalyzers.”
«Nobody meets the requirements»
According to Marcon, none of the instruments meet the necessary requirements: “They have never obtained legal and metrological certification.” According to him, the Supreme Court ruling on the issue is also wrong: «Mimit must intervene first. These are not details. The legal and metrological certification must verify, for example, whether the instrument has the technical requirements to release precise measurements. If the machine does not pass that test, it cannot obtain approval, which is up to the MIT.” Gaps that will not be remedied with the new Highway Code: «No, if there is no legal metrological certification first, no instrument can be used to impose fines. The code will be able to remedy the approval of the Ministry of Transport, nothing else. There’s always a fundamental piece missing first. Which is up to Mimit, as established by article 117 of the Constitutional Charter.”
Statistics and not fines
According to Marcon «if there are those who do 180 on a road that instead requires 90 per hour, with the fine do we think we have solved the problem? If there are people running at that speed, I, the mayor, have to set up patrols and catch the criminals. If instead I limit myself to making statements and that’s it, in the end I become an accomplice.” Finally, the over 11 thousand speed cameras in Italy should be used “for statistics, not fines”.
