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Chlordecone: the territorial collectivity of Martinique files a civil action

2021-10-12T18:45:42.433Z


The territorial community of Martinique announced Tuesday, October 12 that it was going to be a civil party in the trial for poisoning ...


The territorial collectivity of Martinique announced Tuesday, October 12 that it was going to be a civil party in the lawsuit for poisoning with chlordecone, a pesticide which caused significant pollution in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

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"

The President of the Martinique Executive Council, Serge Letchimy has decided to take legal action by becoming a civil party to the chlordecone trial

," the CTM said in a press release. "

By this historic gesture, the Collectivité de Martinique, as a body constituted, takes up a file that has impacted generations of Martinique and Martinique

", adds the text. “

Everyone knows my commitments on chlordecone. It is a state, health scandal, with deadly repercussions on our population. Martinicans are five times more exposed to prostate cancer. The parliamentary report that I delivered in 2019 made the findings. It is now a question of repairing,

”said Serge Letchimy quoted in the press release.

Associations from Martinique and Guadeloupe which lodged a complaint fourteen years ago for poisoning with chlordecone had learned at the beginning of the year that this complaint could fall within the scope of the prescription, during a meeting at the public health pole of the judicial tribunal of Paris.

This had aroused misunderstanding and anger on both islands.

The CTM intends to play the weight of its elected officials in the balance so that this case is not time-barred.

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Chlordecone, a pesticide banned in France in 1990 but which continued to be authorized in the banana fields of Martinique and Guadeloupe by ministerial exemption until 1993, caused significant and lasting pollution of the two islands.

More than 90% of the adult population in Guadeloupe and Martinique is contaminated with chlordecone, according to

Public Health France

.

Source: lefigaro

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