France: State ordered to compensate smog victims

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 20 - The French State has been sentenced for the first time to compensate victims of smog due to exceeding the pollution threshold in the Paris region. The sentence on the basis of two judgments of the administrative court of Paris "unprecedented and important", as indicated to Agence France Presse the lawyer of the families, François Lafforgue.
They concern two children victims of bronchiolitis and ear dryness in the first two years of life. Both reside in the Paris region less than 1 km from the Boulevard Péripherique, the ring road that surrounds the capital of France. The French state will have to pay 3,000 and 2,000 euros to families.
Already in October 2022, the state was sentenced to pay 20 million euros, as it was held by the Council of State responsible for poor air quality. In France, according to the Santé Publique France body, 40,000 idecesses are attributable each year to fine particles. (ANSA).