“Your thermal car is forbidden to resell, 7,500 euros fine”, “It is official! As of June 2025, you can no longer sell your car or diesel car”, this is what you can read and listen to in a video posted on Tiktok on May 5 and that already combines almost 450,000 visits this Tuesday, May 20, 15 days after its publication.
A video of the “Actus24H” account, under the identifier “@info_108”, which has 98,000 subscribers and offers “exclusive news in 1 minute!”, From this alleged prohibition that would apply from June 1.
Confusion with a European objective for 2035 in new car sales
“According to BFMTV, only 100% of electric or hydrogen vehicles will be authorized for resale,” explains the video, while there is no source corresponding to looking for a video of the BFMTV antenna or an article on the website.
A “false news” or infox that would be based on a certain confusion with the objective of prohibiting the sale of new thermal cars in the countries of the European Union by 2035. And that does not refer to the second -hand resale.
The only potential threat to thermal vehicles currently in circulation: the implementation of low -emission areas (ZFE), which gradually prohibits access to the large cities of Europe according to the engine, with certain cities that would only allow circulating electric cars. But nothing concrete: Paris provided, for example, 2030 for this limit, but continues to support the prohibitions to circulate for gas and diesel cars before 2006 and without automatic verbalization configuration.
Another Infox: driving without “authorized” permission on June 1
On May 19, New Automobile Infox: “It is official: driving without a license will be authorized in France from May 2025,” says the video description. Video in which it can be read that this measure would really apply “Union (sic) 2025”.
But what will happen in May or “Unite” 2025? “It will be legal for an apprentice driver to take the wheel without a license, without an instructor and without a companion, the first in the history of the country.” This is false, especially because it would be a “measure proposed by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin”, who kept this function between July 20 and September 2024, but is currently Minister of Justice since December 2024.
The idea would be to “unravel the driving schools” authorizing apprentices to practice in real conditions, which once again is not current, but allows the authors of the video to call their opinion in the comments: “
Source: BFM TV
