- Sébastien Destremau's boat, last in the 2016-17 Vendée Globe, has been damaged.
- The skipper wonders if he is not the subject of a vendetta.
- A police investigation has been launched.
Sébastien Destremau is not a fearful man. He fears neither Cape Horn, nor storms, nor attempts at intimidation. It is with a smile that the last of the Vendée Globe 2016 tells that, in his mad youth, the "prostitute bar" which he took care of suffered "two shots from a shotgun in the ceiling. Forty years later, the skipper, who is preparing the Vendée Globe 2020, has just been the victim of a strange news story again. His boat, FaceOcean, was badly damaged in the port of Toulon.
On December 19, a man was filmed near the boat in the middle of the afternoon. He throws some tools on the aft deck, undresses and dives into the icy water. After crossing the few meters that separate FaceOcean from the dock, he climbs aboard and meticulously cuts all the electronic cables, before fleeing. Calmly.
"No wankers who drink blows"
"Without making a two-ball paranoia, I'm afraid it's some sort of blood feud against us. In any case, it is banditry, not vandalism ”, launches the skipper, whose boat had already been degraded by thugs, last June. "This time, it is not wankers who drink blows, it is a guy who had a mission to fulfill", launches Destremau, who complained to the Departmental Security:
In my opinion, it cannot be a story of money, because I paid all my suppliers. It might be someone who is jealous or envious, because my story has been successful. It can also be a personal revenge, because of course, I have made enemies in my life! "
Nearly a month after the opening of the investigation, the police did not identify or arrest the man who boarded FaceOcean. "We leave no trail aside: it can be a personal revenge, but it can also be something else," said a police source at 20 Minutes . The analysis of video surveillance is complicated, because the scene “is a little far away. "
Sébastien Destremau, who is selling this boat, wonders if this story could disrupt his participation in the Vendée Globe 2020. The cables to change will cost only a few thousand euros, but the protection of the future boat, which should arrive at Toulon in March could be ruinous. "We have more secure places than this," says an official at the port of Toulon, who we feel very embarrassed by the case. But Sébastien Destremau does not want to carry out his project “behind watchtowers. "
During a Christmas meal, he had a surprising idea, with his mother, Thérèse, who worked for a long time in the reception of homeless people: “Maybe we will offer a homeless person to settle aboard the boat: it's not a great apartment but it's already not bad. And it would be more beautiful than guards in a guardhouse! "
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