Truck robbery wave on french roads particularly affects drivers Region of Murcia, Because The route they follow forces them to enter La Junquera. He explains that the south of the French country is a hot region where these crimes are committed. Pedro Díaz, president of the Regional Federation of Murcia Organizations and Transport Companies (Froet).
Díaz points out that “this crime that we have suffered for years is not something that is happening now: suffers a lot of time», but «previously, there were cases for six or seven years, but they were not daily», whereas Fuel theft happens every day this year.
The person in charge of Froet wants “the gendarmerie to really act on this”. Last week, gendarme announced that France has Emergency phone number 17 activated so carriers can notify truck robbery and police checks with speed.
Emergency phone number 17 direct Gendarmerie Operations and Intelligence Center (CORG) advises the driver to stay in the truck until help arrives.
Díaz said that “the most stolen thing is fuel, because worth a lot of money».
Trucks on international routes from Spain They often carry full tanks when refueling aircraft carriers in the Iberian Peninsula just before the crossing. border because prices are much lower than the rest of Europe.
“You have to put in something other than making an announcement on behalf of the authorities,” says Pedro Díaz.
The carriers association noticed a significant increase in robberies of Murcian trucks on French soil, especially when the trailers were left there. parked in parking lots Main lines, while drivers take mandatory breaks.
“In addition to the cost of that fuel, the problem is in their breakdown to steal,” says Díaz, who confirms that criminals “break the tank” from time to time. “with a drill”while remembering that “the diesel tank is more valuable than the fuel itself”. “When they see it has a safety padlock, what they do is puncture the tank,” he emphasizes.
Pedro Díaz is running it They’re being robbed by the “mafias who are reselling that diesel”. “They’re already organized gangs,” he says. Putting an end to these criminal groups “won’t be that difficult,” he said, “but you should always put more into the non-announcement part of the authorities.”
The head of Froet says these gangs “even load trucks into tanks” and says that in each robbery, “at least three or four people, two of them in the tank, were involved, and the others transported the product to someone else.” tanker ».
A Murcian driver is seen falling victim to fuel theft stranded on a foreign country’s highway. “You have to go to the gendarmerie to report it, you cannot move with the vehicles there; Then there is the time they waste and success is never achieved with these complaints, Nothing happens. I don’t know if they’re capable of acquiring these tapes or if they’re in a hurry enough to get them,” emphasizes Díaz.
3,000 Euros per hit
The affected person is “stuck” because not only “you have to look for diesel” but also “you have to fix that tank” and note that the trailer “normally carries perishable goods”. “It creates a pretty serious problem for us,” he explodes.
The head of Froet calculates that “with the price of the actually stolen fuel and the value of the new deposit, each car is stolen, about 3,000 euros”.
Highlights that we are “suffering” wave of robbery all companies in all Spain, but mostly in Murcia», because «we suffer more leaving La Junquera, our most important route, than those leaving Irún». “Ours is where there are more bands,” he repeats.
National Transport Committee seeks assistance from the Spanish Government
Fenadismer employers’ association and other organizations that make up the National Road Transport Committee, Ministries of Transport and Interior Requesting the French authorities to provide Spanish airlines with means to report the facts, as “the assistance received to date is rather inefficient and complex”.
They also claim enough police team To avoid the scourge of robbery at service and rest stations in the south of France.
Then came the authorization of the emergency phone number 17. Since it has been implemented recently, it cannot be evaluated yet whether it works or not. Truckers consulted from the District admitted that they did not quite believe in this authority against criminals.
When dialing the emergency number 17Due to the fact that the gendarmerie has units on all highways and main roads, a unit will be deployed on the land for emergency response, by sending a patrol to the location of the TIR, it will make the first response and receive the driver’s complaint, if not, to indicate Which gendarmerie brigade should you contact the closest?.
The process is essential when making a claim before any insurance company. Eduardo Lopez Alonso/ALH