Mystery in Brittany : mystery washed ashore, Garfield phones, after decades solved

For more than 30 years of Garfield to be stranded-phones on the beaches of Brittany - now French environmentalists have clarified the cause of this mysterious phenomenon. In a cave near the extreme Western tip of France is the Remains of a container with the bizarre charge were discovered.

"We found this incredible rock column of 30 meters in depth, and the bottom is the remains of a container," said Claire Simonin of the Association Ar Viltansoù, the liberated beaches in the extreme West of France, of garbage. Over the years, the Team had tried to find out where the Garfield-phones. "Our Association has been operating for 18 years, and since then, we find in almost every beach cleaning parts of Garfield-phones."

The orange Garfield-parts were always a section on an approximately 24-Kilometer-long coast between the municipalities of Plougonvelin and Plouarzel stranded. As the phenomenon occurred in February of 2019, helped by media reports, to solve the mystery at last. Since then, a local resident of the club Viltansoù, told reported to have a mysterious Container in the 1980s and saw how the station France info reported.

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Finally, the Team from the environmental protection Association Viltansoù decided to go to the suspected location on the search and found the Garfield Treasury. But so bizarre is the story of the orange phones landline also - your Background is serious. "Garfield is an icon that allows you to sharpen the awareness for the Problem of marine pollution by plastics," says Simonin. Because it is only a Container of the Thousands that were sunk in the ocean. (AFP/dpa)