For all electrohypersensitive (EHS), these people say they cannot live where electromagnetic waves pass, the decision had been historic. On February 22, 2024, the judicial court of Digne-les-Bains had granted one of them, Philippe Tribaudeau, 64, the right to remain on the ground that he illegally occupied in the Vanson forest (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) against the will of the National Forest Office (ONF), which had asked for its expulsion. For the first time, a court decision recognized, even implicitly, the reality of symptoms, the majority of the medical community, without denying them, believes that nothing proves their link with the waves.

Victory only lasted a few months. The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal broke this judgment on April 29, saying that “The health risk incurred by Mr. Tribaudeau because of his displacement cannot justify letting an involvement so characterized to the right of property of the State” persist “. It is based on a report by the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Labor Safety and Labor (ANSES) of March 2018, which writes “That no solid experimental evidence currently makes it possible to establish a causal link between exposure to electromagnetic fields and the symptoms described by people declaring themselves”. “It’s a big disappointment, Regrets Marie-Noëlle Bollinger, Chef de Project for associations white areas. This refusal to officially recognize their illness prevents a lot from EHS from talking about it. However, they must show themselves and make the invisible visible. »»

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