Brittany is definitely full of tasty and fragrant stories. After the case of the creperie that smelled too much like crepes, here is the one about the hotel that smells like laundry detergent. A little too much, in fact, for one of its neighbors. According to West Francethis woman has in fact taken the hotel establishment to court, believing that she could not enjoy her second home on the seafront in Saint-Malo because of the strong smell of laundry coming from the adjoining hotel.
The case is not new since the first complaints date back to 2005. In 2016, an agreement was finally reached with the hotel, which had agreed to use fragrance-free laundry detergent.
The hotel did not respect the agreement according to her.
But the agreement was not respected according to the neighbor who in 2021 brought the case before the interim relief judge. A complaint deemed inadmissible due to the statute of limitations of the facts which fall under neighborhood disturbances. Claiming 6,000 euros in compensation, the neighbor turned to the court of appeal which also dismissed her claim in 2022.
The case finally landed on the desk of the Court of Cassation, which rejected the plaintiff’s appeal on July 11, he said. West France. With the case now closed for the courts, the neighbor will still have to put up with the smell of laundry detergent from the hotel. Or move.