Question 16315 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Julien Guibert draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the increase in burglaries in rural areas and more particularly in the department of Nièvre. In many rural communities in the district, residents are expressing growing concern about the increase in burglaries targeting main residences, second homes, agricultural operations and outbuildings. or even professional premises. This concern, which is not a simple feeling, is also reflected in the figures transmitted by state services. In Nièvre, a deeply rural department, 696 residential burglaries have already been recorded between January and October 2025, i.e. a rate of 3.44 burglaries per 1,000 inhabitants, higher than many comparable areas. Over the same period, 348 vehicle thefts, 199 thefts from vehicles and 235 thefts of accessories from vehicles were also noted. More broadly, 947 non-violent thefts against people were recorded in the department. Behind these statistics are families, elderly people, farmers or traders faced with the break-in of their homes or their work tools and the resulting feeling of insecurity. In the territories rural areas, where the isolation of homes and the distance from services can increase the vulnerability of residents, these repeated attacks on property fuel a deep feeling of abandonment and a growing mistrust of the State's capacity to ensure daily security. Beyond the sometimes considerable material damage, victims regularly speak of profound trauma linked to the intrusion into their home, a place privacy and protection. However, the right to property constitutes a fundamental principle of the Republic and security remains the first freedom. When residents give up leaving their homes, invest themselves in protective equipment due to a lack of sufficient response or live in fear of a new intrusion, it is confidence in the capacity of the State to ensure basic security that is found weakened. The specificities of rural areas - geographical remoteness, dispersion of habitat, vast areas of intervention and sometimes limited resources of internal security forces - create particular vulnerabilities from which certain delinquency networks today seem to take advantage. The data communicated by the prefecture show that the rate of residential burglaries in Nièvre remains higher than the national average, which stands at 2.53 incidents per 1,000 inhabitants. This situation confirms the need for a reinforced State response in rural departments facing widespread but persistent delinquency. Local elected officials regularly warn of the need to strengthen the visible presence of law enforcement in rural areas, to improve the resources devoted to gendarmerie brigades and to provide response adapted to the delinquency which now affects municipalities sometimes far from large urban centers. He also asks what measures the Government intends to implement in order to fight more effectively against burglaries in rural areas, strengthen the protection of residents in rural departments like Nièvre and guarantee everyone this basic security which constitutes one of the first conditions of the effective exercise of freedoms and respect for property rights.

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