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A French court has ordered a piggery to compensate a former worker who became deaf partly as a result of the incessant squeals of the animals in his charge.
A court in the western town of Lons-le-Saunier in the Jura region ruled that the Pelizzari group had committed an “inexcusable error” by failing to protect Serge Personeni from a work hazard.