Didier Grellier, a former farmer living in La Chaize-Giraud, testified in West Francein February 2021. A speech to reveal its “agricultural plagues”. Without knowing it, he was poisoned by the pesticides he used in his agricultural activity for around thirty years. “Animals and crops were treated without precaution. »
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At the time of his retirement, during a routine blood test in 2011, a rare disease was diagnosed. Didier Grellier has too many platelets in his blood and he has bone marrow cancer.
For the ex-farmer, the link with pesticides is obvious, but, during our interview in 2021, he hesitated to take steps to have the professional nature of his illness recognized. He feared being faced with a judicial and administrative wall. “I didn't…
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