French woman ruled dead in 2017 fights to be declared alive

Jeanne Pouchain (Courtesy of Pierre-Jean Pouchain via AP)

A French woman has been trying for three years to prove she is alive after being declared dead amid a legal dispute in 2017.

Jeanne Pouchain, 58, says she lives in constant fear, not daring to leave her house in the village of Saint Joseph, in the Loire region.