In front of her broken window, Sandrine Callu remains speechless. “I resigned myself to buying two metal curtains: €5,668.80. The price of my safety in La Roche-sur-Yon. »
After three burglaries in six months, the owner of the La Joséphine coffee-shop is tired of sweeping up broken glass. “I would never have imagined that in a small town. Exhausted by sleepless nights, she ended up "barricading" herself.
As the security adviser at the police station had suggested to him, after the last nocturnal intrusion on April 19.
Moulin de La Roche, Sicard
The phenomenon is not isolated. At Moulin de La Roche, boulevard Lyautey, Frédéric Templier's bakery has been robbed four times in one year. In the city center, Place Napoléon, the Sicard bakery has lost count of the damage to its glass facade.
In the south, new bakers, freshly arrived and already robbed, prefer to keep a low profile. “It would be a shame to give them ideas”, slips this new craftsman, stolen in early May.
Sparse change
Since 1st January 2020, ten complaints for burglaries in bakeries have been filed at the La Roche-sur-Yon police station.
"In addition to these ten facts, damage was recorded without it appearing as a burglary, with regard to the operating methods and the findings or declarations of the managers", specifies the commissioner Laurent Dufour.
These facts have been accentuated during this singular year marked by successive confinements. “These essential businesses are the only ones to have remained open during the confinements, and to handle currency. These cash funds are of interest to thieves, ”deciphers the commissioner.
30 to 45 seconds
Opportunistically, the thugs target the unprotected windows, equipped with sliding glass doors, with two leaves.
“They force their foot on the bottom of the doors and go under them. When the alarm goes off, they know they have between 30 and 45 seconds to steal the cash register, before the police arrive,” explains Sandrine Callu.
When the fund is empty, petty theft and damages remain to be paid for the owners. “The feeling is terrible for the victims, already confided Commissioner Dufour in the newspaper of Thursday April 29. This violation of privacy is particularly violent when it comes to a work tool. »
Epiphenomenon
Faced with the rise in thefts from bakeries, Pierre Lefebvre, security assistant, prefers to broaden the focus: “It’s not just in La Roche. I inquired, this is the case everywhere. I called Angers, they have the same problem. »
For the elected official, the Yonnais case would be more of an “epiphenomenon” linked to a handful of individuals, than of a “wildness” of the city.
To put an end to it, the deputy relies on video surveillance. “We have a network of 77 cameras on the public highway. Videos can provide us with evidence to stop them. »
"Bunker everything"
The elected official also recommends "appropriate monitoring of sensitive sites in relation to the time when the facts are committed". In other words, after 8 p.m., it is up to the National Police to do the job.
Finally, Pierre Lefebvre advises shopkeepers to call the police security adviser beforehand. History to point out the weaknesses of the establishment and to equip itself accordingly. For the deputy, the solution is simple: “You have to bunker everything to be quiet. »
A localized phenomenon
Contacted, Aurélien Gillaizeau, president of the federation of bakers-pastry chefs of Vendée, assures that the phenomenon remains confined to La Roche-sur-Yon. No feedback from the field points to an upsurge in burglaries in bakeries in the Vendée during the past year. For good reason, “more and more businesses are equipped with cameras and automatic coin acceptors, such as safes. This deters thieves. »
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