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State ordered compensate relatives deceased:
French justice condemned the State on Tuesday to compensate relatives of a jogger who died in 2016 in a mud invaded by green algae. Furthermore, which has been proliferating for decades on the coast of the west of France. Moreover, Since 1971, tons of green algae has laughed each year on the beaches of Brittany. Similarly, By rotting, they give off hydrogen sulfide, a deadly gas in the event of exposure to high concentrations.
Justice has retained “Responsibility for the fault of the State. However, because of its deficiencies in the implementation of European and national regulations intended to protect the waters from any pollution of agricultural origin” who is “The main cause of the proliferation of green algae in Brittany”she explains in a press release. Furthermore, In November 2022. the Rennes Administrative Court had rejected as a whole requests for state ordered compensate relatives deceased compensation for the family, the public rapporteur having estimated that “causal link” between the presence of algae and the death of the jogger “could not be established”, nor the responsibility of the State.
“Mr. Auffray died of brutal respiratory failure which could have been due to exposure to green algae. to cardiac arrest”, he said. His relatives then appealed the judgment “By asking only for the state’s conviction to compensate them”recalls the court in. its press release. “The Court estimates. based in particular on several documents which had not been presented to the administrative court of Rennes, that the death of the victim, aged 50, which occurred instantly and was caused by massive and dazzling pulmonary edema, could not be explained other than by a deadly intoxication by inhalation of hydrogen sulfuré at very high concentration rates”she explains.
“For the first time. a French court retains state ordered compensate relatives deceased the link between the death of a person and the fault of the state in these affairs of green algae”praised the family lawyer, Me François Lafforgue, after AFP. “The state must more than ever act effectively”, he added.
The damage suffered by the relatives of the deceased will be partially compensated. the court believing that the fifties had taken a risk by going to run in this estuary. She “Consequently judges that the State is responsible for only 60% for the damaging consequences of death”.
State ordered compensate relatives deceased
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