French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced 500 spot checks at fuel stations across France - with fines already being issued - over fears of excessive price hikes in the wake of the war in Iran and the Gulf.
The spot checks began on Monday and on Tuesday morning Trade Minister Serge Papin said that about 6 percent of the filling stations inspected so far would face sanctions.
Meanwhile, the French government spokesperson, Maud Brégeon, reported “about 16 percent irregularities, some of which were obviously punished with fines,” when questioned on French media France 2.
Some stations “hide their real prices,” the trade minister explained on TF1, with prices listed on their website “at €1.95 for diesel, for example, but when you arrive at the station it’s €2.10, which is not acceptable.”
"The war in the Middle East must not become a pretext for abusive prices at the pump," Lecornu said on Sunday, announcing that 500 spot checks would be made at fuel stations across France between Monday and Wednesday.
The 500 checks are equivalent to those that the fraud squad usually carries out over three months, he added.
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