“She heard people whispering”: a student surprises burglars at her home and calls 114, the police arrest the criminals
Une étudiante entend des cambrioleurs chez et alerte la police grâce au 114. (illustration) TL – ML
Le 31 août 2024, une étudiante de Rennes se fait cambrioler et envoie un SMS au numéro d’urgence 114. Deux individus sont interpellés à son domicile.
114 is an emergency number for deaf and hard of hearing people. It allows you to send an emergency text message and alert emergency services or the police. However, on August 31, a Rennes student, neither deaf nor hard of hearing, needed it, reports France Bleu.
A rapid intervention by the police
The 18-year-old girl had just moved into a student room in a house in Raison. But on the night of August 31 to September 1, she was woken up around 4:30 a.m. by noises, says Captain Catherine Jaunâtre, head of the communications office at the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police in Rennes.
“She heard people whispering, she had the reflex to hide in her room. She then sent a text message to the emergency number 114”< /em>, she explains. It was two burglars who broke into the large apartment.
But thanks to the young girl's reflexes, the police were alerted and were able to quickly send a patrol to the scene. "The canine brigade team was able to intervene less than a quarter of an hour after the young woman's text message", underlines Catherine Jaunâtre.
The two men were caught red-handed and were arrested by the police, without the young victim even needing to speak. The number 114 can therefore prove very effective, particularly in situations of domestic violence, notes the local media.
80 calls per day
Based in the premises of the Grenoble University Hospital, on the La Tronche site, near Grenoble, in Isère, 114 receives around 80 calls per day, indicatesFrance Bleu.
It is known to only one in five French people, according to the Viavoice barometer, and is aimed at deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, people who have had a stroke and those who have difficulty expressing themselves, and thus concerns seven million French people.
Depending on their communication skills, users can contact 114 via the “Emergency 114” application, which offers a video service to which agents respond in sign language, via the website or by SMS.
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