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On the French coasts, the scourge of boat thefts

2021-07-29T09:26:52.183Z


INVESTIGATION - Every summer, nearly 1,200 pleasure boats are stolen by sea bandits. Only 5% are found by the authorities.


Like every night, the Cap d'Agde harbor master's office patrols to ensure the safety of boaters and the 5,000 boats in one of the largest marinas in France. It must be said that since the theft last summer of two boats at Grau-du-Roi and Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, just a few kilometers from Cap d'Agde, the surveillance officers have been on the lookout. “

There are a lot of people here, passing people. Ensuring that there are no thieves is not as easy as in a port of 200 boats, where everyone knows each other and where boaters watch each other,

”explains

Le Figaro.

Benjamin Moreno, responsible for the security of Cap d'Agde for fifteen years.

With seven other agents, he ensures a physical presence 24 hours a day, also monitoring the surroundings thanks to the 12 cameras linked to the municipal police.

"

If we have any doubts, we ask the person for the name of their boat: if they do not know it, we immediately know

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Source: lefigaro

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