Paris Court Rejects Bid to Reopen Probe Into Caribbean Chlordecone Contamination
The ruling leaves no path to new criminal charges, even as judges acknowledged a health scandal and environmental damage affecting residents for years.
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The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed that the chlordecone health scandal had not taken place. This pesticide has been used for a long time in the West Indies despite repeated warnings about its harmfulness. Thirty years after its ban, contamination is everywhere. A new study by Public Health France on the exposure of the Antillean population is expected this year. - Chlordecone in the West Indies: 30 years after the ban, which is affected and wha…
French court refuses trial on use of toxic insecticide in French West Indies
A French court has ruled against a trial on the use of a known toxic insecticide in the French West Indies, shutting down the possibility of an investigation in a health scandal that has been ongoing for 20 years. Despite being labelled as possibly carcinogenic in 1979, chlordécone was used between 1972 until 1993 - thanks to a by-law that allowed it to circumvent its ban, introduced in 1990. FRANCE 24's Shirli Sitbon tells us more.
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Modern GhanaParis court rejects bid to reopen probe into Caribbean chlordecone contamination
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Monday 22 June the dismissal of 2023, at first instance, in the case of this pesticide which was widely used in Martinique and Guadeloupe until 1993, despite the knowledge of its toxicity.
Judicial information had been opened in 2008 in Paris. The dismissal, pronounced in 2023, aroused the anger of the Antilleans.
Justice closes the criminal case concerning the prolonged use of this pesticide in the West Indies, classified since 1979 as a possible carcinogen, and despite warnings about its harmfulness "
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