It was after the clash on June the 18th, 1944 between a group of resistance fighters and Germans in Corroac’h on the Haut Combrit and the Germans decided to carry out a raid in the Plomelin and Combrit sector. This began on June the 19th, twenty-seven people were arrested and taken to the Saint-Gabriel school in Pont-l’Abbé for interrogation.
Some groups escaped by crossing the Odet river to take refuge in Gouesnac’h (among them, Paul Le Maître, fisherman at Île-Tudy).
This June 19th, three young islanders are arrested, François Coupa, Louis Denic and Maurice Volant. They were also directed towards Saint-Gabriel but Louis Denic, administratively dependant on Quimper because he resided there, was transferred to the Saint-Charles school in Quimper in the evening.
Continuing their roundup, the Germans were in Île-Tudy at dawn on June 20th, their searches were precise because the island resistance had been designated.
Twelve resistance fighters were captured by the Germans, only two, René Le Cleac’h and Gilbert Perrin, managed to escape.
The prisoners will be grouped before their transfer to Saint-Gabriel in the Lecointre cannery, occupied by the Germans customs. This factory will have been a short-lived prison.
On June the 24th, our fourteen islanders were sent to Saint-Charles and found Louis Denic there.
In July, they were transferred to Fresnes prison and then to Germany were the would suffer all the horrors of deportation.
Only two islanders will retourn from the sinister camps, Louis Denis and Pierre Goasdoué.
