He tries to heal the wounds. Invited this Friday morning on France Inter, the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu announced that an “exceptional emergency fund” amounting to 50 million euros would be released by the State to help the residents affected by storms Ciaran and Domingos. This financial aid, the conditions for obtaining which remain to be defined, will be reserved for people residing in Brittany and the Manche region, the most affected areas.
“It is a first envelope of 50 million euros of public money that I am able to announce to you this morning, with a particular focus on reforestation,” declared the minister on the air.
The Minister of Agriculture contradicts Macron
This announcement comes two days after the declarations of the Minister of Agriculture, confirming that Brittany would not benefit from the state of natural disaster. Traveling to Finistère on November 3 to observe the damage, Emmanuel Macron had nevertheless promised this recognition “wherever we can do it. »
During his visit to the region, Marc Fesneau, however, announced the release of a fund of 80 million euros to help farmers in Brittany, Normandy and Hauts-de-France. In Brittany, an elected official put the damage to farmers at “several tens of millions of euros”.
France Assureurs had set the figure of 1.3 billion euros in damage across all areas affected by the violent winds. An estimate which did not take into account losses linked to flooding in Hauts-de-France.