We are on September 19, 2019 when a fighter plane crashes in a field in the small town of Pluvigner, near Auray, in Morbihan. Fortunately, the two occupants of the F16 of the Belgian army managed to eject and escaped without damage. The co-pilot will still be rescued hanging in a high voltage line where he had tangled his parachute. In the accident, the fighter plane seriously damaged a house. Its occupants had written an open letter a few months after the crash, deploring the lack of compensation and the impossibility of returning to their home. On Wednesday, a couple of farmers claimed compensation from the Ministry of the Armed Forces before the court in Lorient.
According to West France, the farmers demanded just over 200,000 euros in compensation because of their inability to harvest their wheat on time. Their fields were in fact within the security perimeter established around the crash site, making harvesting impossible. Seized by the couple, justice dismissed the farmers of their request, considering that “the impossibility of access to all the plots is not sufficiently demonstrated”, reports West France. The plaintiffs decided to appeal.