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After years of waiting and three weeks of hearing, the British justice concluded that the sinking of the Bugaled Breizh was only a fishing accident. A disappointing finding for the families of the fishermen killed in the shipwreck.
The disappointment is immense for Thierry Lemetayer, son of one of the victims of the sinking of the Bugaled Breizh in January 2004. On leaving the London court of justice, the Frenchman learned that it would not be a British submarine at the origin of the sinking, as he had thought for years. For the British judge in charge of the case, it is a simple fishing accident. “We attended a ball of officers and braided heads, and these people support each other“, explains the son of Georges Lemetayer.
Still according to the judge of this case, who heard various people during three weeks of hearing, it would be a piece of equipment of the boat which would have touched the seabed, causing the sinking. For the relatives of the victims, the Bugaled Breizh was swept away by a British submarine training in the area. Three submersibles were in the area, but these are not the ones targeted by the families, but the “Turbulent”, a Royal Navy submarine. Its captain had assured that the submarine was docked at the time of the accident. With this conclusion from the British, only an appeal could reopen the investigation.