Paris city council decides to outlaw SUVs, but President Macron's government will need to sign off on the law for it to take effect (thank you Don B!)

The Paris city council adopted a motion that bans SUVs from the city in response to an alleged road rage incident resulting in the death of a cyclist. (but not because of the Islamic terrorists in the 19 ton truck that killed 86 people and injured 434 others in Nice France in July 2016)

Mayor Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party, supports the council's move and says SUVs could become "weapons" against other citizens

The city council called on the government to bar any marketing material that promotes the use of sports utility vehicles.

For the council's motion to take effect, President Emmanuel Macron's government would need to sign off on the law, which had been proposed by Ian Brossat, a communist senator for Paris, earlier this month.

Brossat also has introduced a proposal in the French Senate to grant local authorities the power to ban vehicles weighing over 1.8 tonnes, EU Today reported.

"Motorists kill," said Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie, the mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

"The public space has become the daily theater of this danger exacerbated by increasingly massive motorized vehicles. We must go even further to protect Parisians."

(and how does the Mayor get from place to place? Chauffeur driven SUV is my guess) 

SUVs comprise 25% of private vehicles in Paris. The city said the vehicles were responsible for 10% more accidents than other vehicles, and added that statistics show they are more fatal for the victims they hit. (This article avoids stating how much of the government officials fleet is SUVs, but you already know, from every motorcade of govt vehicles you've seen, that they don't ride in Prius, or Mini. Nope, it's all Limo and SUV)

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/paris-ban-suvs/2024/11/25/id/1189275/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack