With regard to the price of fuel, siphoning is increasing in the country of Lorient. The gendarmerie carries out both preventive and repressive actions. Detail.
The gendarmerie company of Lorient has found, as it is also the case nationwide, an upsurge in fuel siphoning.
While the liter of unleaded 98 was sold, this Wednesday in Lorient, at the worst € 1.68, at best € 1.55, and the liter of diesel € 1.57 or € 1.47, several flights were registered in the sector.
Privileged targets
The preferred targets are: parked rental vehicles, the full tank, on shopping center car parks; heavy goods vehicles that provide transport and logistics but have to be stopped at weekends; the various construction machinery ...
Not to mention the agricultural machinery and the fuel reserves that farmers store on their farms ...
Prevention and repression
The gendarmerie has launched actions of communication, information and prevention towards these potential victims.
At the same time, investigative groups are continuing their investigations, particularly with regard to several siphoning teams working on specific territories.