The State must compensate for victims to demonstrate damage to moral anxiety for having been exposed to the pestine, a pesticide used in Guadalupe and Martinique that has greatly contaminated the soil and water, decided on Tuesday, February 11, the Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris.
Conturbed by almost 1,300 applicants, the Court estimated in a sentence taken on Tuesday that “the State has committed failures by granting sales authorizations” of alerts despite the alerts about their damage, and that consequently it was repaired “, when it was demonstrated, the moral prejudice of the anxiety of the people permanently exposed to this pollution.”
An extended pesticide in banana forests
At the end of February, the deputies had voted in favor of a bill that recognized the “responsibility” of the State in the Chlordrona health scandal in the Antilles.
The text, carried by the deputy of Guadalupe Elie Califer, establishes that “the French Republic recognizes (ISSE) its responsibility for health, moral, ecological and economic damage” caused by the use of this pesticide in Martinica and Guadeloupe.
Cordecone, a Generalized pesticide in banana forests To fight against the Gorgojo, he was banned in the United States in 1975, but remained authorized in France until 1990, and even until 1993 in Antilles, fifteen years after the first one alert. Cellordecone has strongly contaminated water and land of Martinica and Guadalupe and is still detected today in a large majority of the population.
Source: BFM TV
