un ostréiculteur voleur d’huîtres condamné devant le tribunal de Bordeaux
Last January, at first instance, he was sentenced to 6 months in prison. This Wednesday the court was a little more lenient with a 5-month home prison sentence under an electronic bracelet. He will also have to compensate his victim up to 5,000 euros.
At the bar, the defendant admitted only part of the facts. Yes he stole bags of oysters in 2019 but nothing in 2020. Yet 3 witnesses caught him red-handed. Damage caused by the civil party: 12,000 euros, or 120 pockets of shellfish. The thief used himself regularly on the park of his neighbor and resold the goods on weekends on the markets.
The lawyer for the victim and the Regional Shellfish Farming Committee evokes the seriousness of the facts: _“this type of theft destroys trust within the oyster farming community”_, explains Pierre Landette.Worse than all the storms and health crises is 3 years of work that we cancel, the time it takes to raise an oyster.
In her submissions, the public prosecutor also evokes the tensions aroused by this case. She is delighted that the oyster farmer-thief has left the Bassin d’Arcachon for Charente-Maritime. It must be said thathe had received threats from some colleagues.