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The GPS that farmers use on their farms to optimize their activity are the envy of thieves. In Aube, farmers were able to find their precious tool thanks to the work of the gendarmes.
The huge mechanical arms of the tractor unfold. AT Vallentigny (Aube), to treat his barley plots, Frédéric Adeline has not a day to lose. He has 400 hectares of crop to process, an impossible task without this GPS, which was stolen from him a month ago, before being found by the gendarmes. At the end of March, the GPS of six farmers in Aube were stolen in a single night. According to the gendarmes, who arrested the thieves, the operation was very well prepared, as shown by the images captured by a video surveillance camera.
GPS worth 15,000 euros
The two hooded and gloved thieves know exactly where to go. “There were scouting carried out the previous days. The operating mode is often the same”, says Warrant Officer Jessica, gendarme of the Bar-sur-Aube company. The GPS units, worth 15,000 euros, were to be transported to Eastern Europe, to be resold on the black market. But the gang was spotted, followed, and caught by the French gendarmes, before crossing the border.
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