In response to the dismissal announced by the courts in the chlordecone case, the Future Generations association announced, Friday, January 6, to appeal. It also asks the State to recognize its responsibility in the massive poisoning of the Antilles with chlordecone, a pesticide authorized in banana plantations until 1993.
If the investigating judges recognize a “health scandal” and an “environmental damage whose human, economic and social consequences affect and will affect for many years the daily life of the inhabitants”they highlight the difficulty of “report the criminal evidence of the facts denounced”commis “10.15 or 30 years before the filing of complaints. » The first dates back to 2006.
Dismissal gives a feeling of injustice
“This is the worst spit in the faces of the people of Guadeloupe, Martinique as well as those of all residents of various origins”, protests Patricia Chatenay-Rivauday, vice-president of the Vivre association and civil party to the criminal proceedings. As a civil party to the criminal proceedings, she attests to her unwavering support for “all the organizations fighting against the most scandalous voluntary act of pollution ever perpetrated on French territory”.
A feeling of injustice shared by the Future Generations association, which will appeal the court decision with its lawyers from the TTLA firm. “The dismissal order, we expected it, laments Nadine Lauverjat, General Delegate of Future generations. But what is interesting is that the judges recognize the health scandal. »
The desire for state recognition
Future Generations would like, at the very least, the French State to recognize that it has made a mistake, as for climate non-action, and to demand compensation for the local population directly concerned. “Current generations today pay for water and soil pollution, continues Nadine Lauverjat. There is material to do justice and it is essential to assert the recognition of the victims. »
90% of adult population affected
Studies prove it, chlordecone has harmful effects on human health and the environment. According to Public Health France, more than 90% of the adult population in Guadeloupe and Martinique is contaminated with chlordecone. These Caribbean populations have one of the highest prostate cancer incidence rates in the world.