After posting magnet fishing videos on social media, the regional directorate of cultural affairs discovered that the man had no authorization for this practice and that he was reselling some of his catches.
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On Thursday January 18, the Metz criminal court sentenced a 32-year-old man to four months in prison and a fine of 2,000 euros, indicates France Bleu Lorraine Nord. The Moselle father was found guilty of carrying out archaeological digs without authorization and stealing archaeological finds after posting magnet fishing videos on social media.
Messin became known on Instagram and YouTube for his practice of magnet fishing. These videos aroused the curiosity of the regional directorate of cultural affairs (Drac), which carried out an investigation and discovered that the magnet fisherman has no authorization for this practice and that he resells some of his discoveries on networks.
However, in his videos, the man assures that magnet fishing is above all for ecological purposes. In a video published in 2019, he explains having drafted “two panels, two large barriers, manhole covers” but in his nets, he also finds coins, old jewelry, ammunition, old pistols and even safes, reports France Bleu Lorraine Nord. During searches carried out at his home, a metal detector and more than 1,000 objects were found by investigators, for an amount estimated at 2,250 euros.
