The driving license points scam | France 2 | Envoyé Spécial

In 10 years the number of dead on France’s roads has been halved and yet more and more French people are driving outside the law. Pink paper fraud has reached an unprecedented scale. Each year it costs the state several hundreds of millions of Euros. There’s an explosion of licenses withdrawn, points deducted, driving tests that are increasingly “spicy”. Some French drivers seem to have found the answer: with specialist lawyers who systematically contest every driving offence, the use of vehicle registered abroad, cheating at the driving test. How do these unscrupulous drivers manage to get a license without taking a test or avoid losing points? Why do these cheats run the risk of breaking the law? What limits are there to the scams offered to drivers and how are the authorities combating this plague? An investigation into a booming phenomenon.