" There is nothing left! Strangles Serge Carlot, interdepartmental delegate for Nord-Pas-de-Calais of the National Society for Sea Rescue (SNSM). And for good reason: in Calais (Pas-de-Calais), on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Training and Intervention Center (CFI) of the SNSM was robbed for the fourth time in just three months. It is in its buildings that the equipment necessary for the training of lifeguards swimmers, who secure our swimming, is stored.
"They took the emergency bags at 4000 euros each with defibrillators, life jackets and communication equipment ...", laments the delegate. 7 motorized inflatable boats must be added to the list, half of which were found in the English port of Dover.
The security site halted during confinement
Impossible not to make the link with the crossings of refugees that have multiplied in recent days: "It is obvious, admits Serge Carlot, but I do not want the migrants. They are poor people who live in unspeakable conditions, and who are victims of the smugglers. We must find them a lasting solution. "
Stopped during confinement, the work to secure the CFI buildings is now complete. To quickly succeed in renewing the stolen equipment, the lifeguard swimmers had launched a kitty on the helloasso.com site (“Revive the SNSM training center in Calais!”) After the first burglaries, a kitty that is all theirs more useful today.