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Green algae: the state attacked for ecological damage

2021-04-13T18:16:47.860Z


Several administrative appeals filed by associations want to toughen the fight against this sometimes deadly pollution.


It is a real public health problem that some Breton activists do not intend to let buried.

A new legal procedure is underway in the case of the fight against green algae which has particularly affected Brittany for nearly fifty years.

From the death of Thierry Morfoisse, truck driver, who died in Binic in July 2009 after having transported decaying green algae, to the horse that died after a fall in the algae in Saint-Michel-en-Grève the same year, via the 36 wild boars grounded in a mudflat in the Gouessant estuary, in 2011, near the place where, in 2016, a 50-year-old jogger, Jean-René Auffray, was found unconscious, probably for the same reasons (the link with the hydrogen sulphide released by the algae could not be established and the case had been closed)…

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Source: lefigaro

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