Farmer in Saint-Quentin, in the Aisne, Bruno Cardot had his cattle truck stolen on Wednesday February 16. In a video posted on his Twitter account, where he is followed by more than 5,000 people, he did not hide his displeasure.
“We had our working tool taken from us. We had my cattle truck pulled away”. Accustomed to sharing his daily life as a farmer on social networks, Bruno Cardot left for work on Wednesday February 16 and did not find the livestock truck he uses daily. According to this farmer, “the van was in the yard (of his farm, editor’s note) at 3 a.m.” on Wednesday, February 16.
To illustrate his remarks, he filmed himself showing the place by which the thieves would have entered his property. In the images of his video, part of the concrete wall, measuring two meters high and enclosing his exploitation, has been demolished. However, Bruno Cardot is not stingy when it comes to protecting his workplace. He is equipped with surveillance cameras and has a Malinois who stands guard.
A feeling of insecurity
In the post that Bruno Cardot published on social networks, he took on Emmanuel Macron, Jean Castex, Julien Denormandie, Gérald Darmanin as well as the region in which he lives, its agglomeration and the national gendarmerie.
WHO PROTECTS US IN OUR CAMPAIGNS?
How do I deliver to customers now? #cattle@EmmanuelMacron @JeanCASTEX @J_Denormandie @hautsdefrance @AggloStQuentin @Gendarmerie @GDarmanin pic.twitter.com/DXn4NKdUdt
— Bruno (@BruCardot) February 16, 2022
With his video, which has more than 30,000 views, the farmer also wants to show the insecurity that reigns in the countryside. This is not the first time that Bruno Cardot has been the victim of a theft. “There is often this kind of theft on farms, especially diesel theft.”
The breeder then finds himself completely helpless. It must be said that the livestock trailer is essential to his job since he uses it daily to transport his animals to his customers. To be able to continue working, he must therefore rent another one from one of his colleagues.
Campaigns that lack law enforcement
If the farmers of Aisne stick together and do not hesitate to warn each other when one of them is the victim of a theft, Bruno Cardot believes that there are not enough forces of l order in the countryside. “We often talk in cities about the number of police officers per inhabitant, I think that at home, we should be talking about a number of gendarmes per km2it will surely be evocative.”
“We are a bit forgotten in the countryside”, laments Bruno Cardot. “There is material, but let’s admit that it is an attack … When you know that you are at night, 35 km from the nearest patrol, we can worry a little.”