Ah, Central Brittany! Its small towns, its vast fields, its small chapels… And its video surveillance cameras. More and more, they are indeed flourishing in rural towns which, clearly, are no longer really spared from the feeling of insecurity. After Moréac, a town of barely 4,000 inhabitants which decided to install around twenty a few months ago, Locminé and Bréhan, it is the turn of Crédin, with only 1,400 inhabitants, to get started. Well, rather, to get back to it.
“It’s too serious”
Crédin, however, is not Chicago. Nor even Pontivy. Populated by silence during the day and 1,493 inhabitants in the evening, this small Morbihan commune, nestled between Rohan and Réguiny, is lulled by a gentleness well known to central Bretons. However, a gentleness that has become relative, according to Mayor Daniel Audo, who during his greetings to the population last Saturday, mixed his speech with a surprising announcement. “We had already talked about it during the last municipal council but our municipal buildings have been the subject of acts of vandalism with tags intentionally harming people and public property (…) the situation is too serious to allow to take hold. this type of behavior.” Already ten years ago, Crédin had succumbed to the camera, nipping a budding delinquency in the bud. “It was following degradation and incivility around the sports complex,” rewinds the councilor, then a simple advisor. And since they were installed, there have been no more problems in this sector of the city.”
“A feeling of security”
But now, a decade later, it is the turn of municipal buildings to be the target of criminals. “CCTV cameras are a deterrent and provide a sense of security for everyone. I am no longer surprised, even in rural areas, we are no longer safe, regrets the elected official. We are seeing it more and more.”
Indeed. Crédin is far from being an isolated case.
Last fall, it was Moréac, 3,700 inhabitants, which decided to equip itself with cameras. Not one, not two, but 21. The troublemakers will just have to watch out. Just like in Bréhan, a little further north, which now has an eye on its football stadium, the town hall square and the library. A place which, just a year ago, had been the scene of very sad damage: Saturday January 11, 2025, in the early morning, employees discovered computers thrown on the ground, paint spread on various surfaces, tied up furniture, lit candles, questionable puns and even a swastika spray painted on the walls. Probably the countryside is no longer really what it used to be: calm and quiet because it is far from the human thrills of big cities. Moreover, in Pontivy, cameras are also flourishing. The extension of the system, voted recently, will bring the number of checkpoints in the Napoleonic city to 34.
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