We’ve heard a lot of things in our time, but this is a new one to us.
A court in France has recognised a woman’s ‘allergy to Wi-Fi’ as an actual medical disorder.
Marine Richard convinced a judge in Marseilles that she has electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) which supposedly causes sufferers severe discomfort when around Wi-Fi, mobile phones and TVs.
Now the condition hasn’t formally been substantiated by doctors, but the 39-year-old claimed that it forced her to retire from urban areas completely to avoid Wi-Fi.
In a first in France (and possibly anywhere else) she was awarded a £500-a-month disability allowance from the state.
The Independent reported Ms Richard, who now lives in a barn without electricity in rural France, as saying: “This is a breakthrough.”
