She had been complaining for years about the harmful effects of the Ferris wheel on her health, the strobe effect of the blinking lights entering her interior causing insomnia, fatigue, dizziness and migraines. A situation which even led her to stop her work, resulting in financial loss estimated at 140,000 euros per year.
Céleste V. resides at Place Bellecour in Lyon (Rhône), where the fairground attraction has been set up, just under her windows, every winter since 2006, for a hundred days. She has just seen her ordeal finally recognized by justice. On Christmas Eve, the administrative court has just ordered the city of Lyon to pay 12,000 euros to this local resident.
It is the legal recognition of the damage, detailed in a medical expert’s report, suffered by this resident of the 2nd arrondissement during four seasons, between 2012 and 2015, during which the town hall authorized the installation of the giant merry-go-round under the same conditions and on the same site, despite formal notices from the complainant.
In its judgment, the Lyon Administrative Court recognized that the disturbances caused by the Ferris wheel “exceeded those that a resident of the public domain must normally endure and were, consequently, liable to engage the liability, without fault, of the common ”.
Lyon city hall did not say whether it intended to appeal this decision.
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