“I don’t understand, we’ve lived here for a year, we haven’t touched anything. » Faced with the two agents from Enedis, the EDF subsidiary in charge of electricity distribution, this owner of a house in Bussy-Saint-Georges (Seine-et-Marne) plays the naivety. A construction helmet on his head and a flocked jacket, Thomas is not fooled: “Obviously, your device has been modified. »
His colleague Dimitri shows the metal cable that was illegally installed on the meter: “We call it a shunt, or a bypass,” he explains. This allows you to use electricity from the network and inject it directly into the home without going through the consumption box. We pay less for our bills, but it is totally illegal and above all very dangerous. »