A Franco-Swiss border, during confinement. – F.Coffrini / AFP
Are the French neighbors responsible for its ills? The commune suisse de Boncourt (canton of Swiss Jura) asks in any case to be able to close its borders with France, at night, in order to put an end to burglaries targeting its homes, announces
Republican East. A small town of 1,300 inhabitants, Boncourt has the particularity of sharing a border with six French municipalities in the
Territory of Belfort.
Burglaries on the Swiss side have been multiplied by five since the reopening of the borders thanks to the deconfinement. No coincidence according to Lionel Maître, the mayor of Boncourt, who had already made a request for nocturnal isolation at the end of 2019.
The canton of Jura then rejected this request and replied that it was not possible to close the cantonal roads at night. But he had not ruled out the possibility of closing the municipal roads. The mayor of Boncourt announces that he will renew the request to the Swiss authorities very soon.
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