"I can not take it anymore, I lost everything." A year ago, 54-year-old Hervé opened his gardening and landscaping business in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in Val-de-Marne. Last Saturday, his world collapsed when protestors present during the mobilization of "yellow vests" set fire to his two trucks. "I'm closing my box, it's over, I'm going to fire two people," he lamented on Europe 1 on Wednesday, his voice quavering.
Astonishment, anger, then indignation. "I can not say it's the fault of the 'yellow vests', I can understand, but tonight (Wednesday night), it's over," sobbed the entrepreneur at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard. "We had left the trucks at a customer's place in Paris," he says. "When I arrived on Sunday, I saw the disaster, I could not believe it ... I went from astonishment to anger, to indignation now." Because the drama is not only material, it is also human: its two employees will indeed be unemployed.
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What do you want me to do ? I can not even borrow
"The insurance will pay me back 'peanuts'". "I'm desperate, because I have guys who work with me who were very, very good, who were great pros, and I have to fire them ... I have no tools, no trucks, I can not do anything anymore, "he continues, before adding that he has already started the process with insurance companies. But the hope of setting up a business is tiny. "The trucks were used, the insurance will pay me back 'peanuts', the tools, the same, what do you want me to do, I can not even borrow."
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"For me, they are wrong target. While Hervé obviously criticizes the excesses of which he was victim, Hervé does not intend nevertheless to overwhelm all the "yellow vests". "They have a way of demonstrating that seems to me a little outdated.For me, they are wrong target by going to bang on the little ones like us.But I can understand them.And we can not put a policeman or a gendarme in front of everything. the world, they have something else to do ... ", he concedes.
If the impact of the breakage and pillaging is still difficult to quantify at the national level, Hervé quotes the case of the brother of one of his clients, owner of an ophthalmological clinic: "They broke all his machines. for 3 million euros of repairs ... "