Even though eleven years have passed, there is someone who does not want the truth of mystery to come to light: What plunged the Breton fishing boat Bugaled Breizh into the sea between Brittany and Cornwall?

When on 14 May the judges of Roazon closed the final dossier without specifying any guilty party, the relatives of the five crews lost by steam showed their anger. “The judges have sunk the boat and the sailors for the second time,” said attorney Christian Bergot. Thierry Le Métayer, the son of the mechanic of Bugaled Breizh, has been thrown over the sea. They will have to go to Europe in search of the truth, because they believe that France hides them.

Bugaled Breizh (Children of Brittany) was a trawler from the village of Loktudi. On January 15, 2014 he transported five men in carpanel: Equipment: Yves Gloaguen, Georges Lemétayer, Pascal Le Floch, Patrick Gloaguen and Eric Guillamet. It was devoured by the sea in 37 seconds, dragged by tremendous force beneath the steam. What?

The previous days had taken refuge in the port of Newlyn in Cornwall, fleeing the storm. When he calmed down, they embarked again. When everything seemed quiet, it sank at 12:30 noon, in just half a minute.

The Eridan steamer was in charge of notifying the police of the emergency call. An hour later, a British Royal Navy helicopter picked up two bodies on a flight from London to London. Two or three rescue boats were also seen in the water, but empty. Five months later, Bugaled Breizh was taken out of the sea. It has since been abandoned in a corner of the Brest military base.

“From those days to today,” said the associations guarding the memory of the crews of Bugaled Breizh, “everything has been talked about to explain the sinking of the steam, on the contrary as one thing, but the truth has never been explained. In these years, justice has failed or not wanted to find responsibilities and clearly appoint the guilty.”

The fact that the boat chained the steam nets at the bottom of the sea was soon discarded: the boat sank too quickly. There was also talk of a clash with a giant freighter and the suspect, the Seattle-Trader Filipino quebound. A lie, it soon became apparent that it was a ploy to deceive the researchers.

The nuclear submarine hypothesis was mentioned from the outset. The cables of the Bugaled Breizh nets had titanium remnants of the material carried on the skin by atomic submarines. The days of the accident resulted in a number of manoeuvres by NATO boats, submarines and aircraft in the area. In 2007, three judges from Oriante (Lorient) stated that the most credible explanation of the accident was that the submarine hit the fishing net.

But since then, the Parisian authorities have removed the dossier from the hands of the three judges. Relatives reported that the prosecutor did not want to investigate the main hypothesis. Yellow journals began to open false clues to hide the most plausible hypothesis.

“Secret Défense”

The seafarers’ relatives have denounced the scandal and tried to keep the investigation alive with the documentary “The silent killer”. The son of one of the five crews sent the filmmaker Jacques Losey to do so.

The film has been shown in the middle of hundreds of places, in front of thousands of viewers. “In all performances – says Losey- viewers are astonished to see how so many false clues have been followed. They get apprehended. They are asked real and profound questions about the functioning of our democracy, about the judicial system...”.

Attempts have also been made to engage in dialogue with politicians. Both with Brittany and with Paris. The film was presented in the Senate in 2013. In 2007, Defense Minister Michelle Alliot-Marie of Donibane did not achieve any sales success. When he was replaced by the Briton, Jean-Yves Le Drian hoped that he would sympathize with his compatriots. “It was almost worse with this. (...) You have the same argument: there you have all the necessary documentation. So, here is nothing to see, go home...”.

SOS members Bugaled Breizh finish the meeting at all locations where the film is shown as follows: “If any of you know or have heard of this shipwreck, please tell us. Be it civil or military, listen to your conscience and tell us what has happened. We have the right to know.”

In one of them, something extraordinary happened. The accident continued with great attention in the town of Newlyn, in Cornwall, where the Bretons were invited to exhibit the film “The silent killer”. The scene that took place in March 2013 in Newlyn can be seen on Youtube: chained in networks, the commander of the atomic submarine HMS Turbulent was in the session, incognito, believed to have brought Bugaled Breizh to the bottom.

In the room, populated by fishermen and relief teams, Commander Andrew Cole was at the back. Recognizing someone, Michel Douce, the shipowner of the lost steam, the master of the five workers, approached him and invited him to know the truth. A few months earlier his lawyer had asked the French judges to question Commander Cole, who had been informed by sources from the British army that the day of the accident was circulating in the vicinity of HMS Turbulent Cap Lizard.

Andrew Cole tells Douce, in front of the camera, that he feels that the steam has sunk to him, but that he had nothing to do with it. What did Commander Cole feel about the need to explain himself in public when the military around him has given all the explanations and the doors are closed? To justify oneself, to express that one feels lonely ...

Those of SOS Bugaled Breizhe will continue to seek a convincing truth between the unknowns. If today it is not tomorrow a sailor or rescuer is certain that he will count the final data he knows. As you are sure that the NATO military is hiding the truth from you. The witnesses have repeatedly met with various information that has been refuted by the military.

But the story also comes as a surprise to the Basques. Anne Kayanakis, the Kenper court prosecutor who in 2007 asked for the dossier to be lifted, was arrested. In 2010, when Jon Anza disappeared from Baiona in the direction of Toulouse (Occitania), Kayanakis was the prosecutor in Baiona. Ask the family of Jon Anza.