Paris-Sana
French President Emmanuel Macron has avoided apologizing to the victims of his country's nuclear tests over the past century in Polynesia.
"France owes French Polynesia because of the unclean nuclear tests conducted between 1966 and 1996 in the Pacific Ocean," Macron said in a speech to officials in Polynesia, which he is currently visiting, stressing that the victims of these nuclear tests should receive greater compensation. .
This speech disappointed the associations of victims of these experiments in the Pacific archipelago, which organized mass demonstrations ahead of Macron's visit to demand an official apology for these victims.
During 30 years, France conducted 193 nuclear tests, initially from the air and then underground in Polynesia, after 71 nuclear tests in the African Sahara. That three years his predecessor Francois Mitterrand.