The National Assembly adopted on Thursday at first reading a bill symbolically recognizing the “responsibility’ of the State in the ravages of chlordecone. The text carried by the deputy for Guadeloupe, Elie Califer, was voted unanimously by the 101 voters, the majority groups having abstained.
The bill provides that the French Republic recognizes its responsibility for the health, moral, ecological and economic damage caused by the use of this pesticide in Martinique and Guadelupe.