2023-07-21 21:00:30
A few days after his attack, he had agreed to testify, still marked by the violence of the blows. “It’s hammer blows, it’s punches, kicks. They threaten to kill my children, to kill my wife, it’s horror for 1h30”, he revealed at the time. His attackers are still wanted. Today his bakery is up for sale. This former manager wants to move. He also has one certainty: he will never work with cash again. “You almost see yourself dying for a few hundred euros. I liked what I was doing, it was a good business, a good job, but I don’t want there to be any handling of cash anymore. Not even ten euros, nothing. Only credit cards”, he says.
Break-ins and robberies in small businesses jumped 15% last year. Bakeries, but also tobacconists in which cash circulates a lot, are particularly affected. In the Nantes region, the TF1 newscast had also met tobacconists, victims of ramming cars six months ago. At the end of their tether, they confided their dismay. “It’s super hard”, admitted one of them. While the inhabitants themselves are worried about their local businesses. “In rural areas, that’s going to be it. If businesses are attacked all the time and permanently, they will all close”, complains a local resident.
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