French justice settles a Nicaraguan case

"The lawsuit that the West Indies did not have, we hope to win for our 1,234 peasants in Nicaragua."

This Monday morning, Me Pierre-Olivier Sur and Me Clara Gérard-Rodriguez must plead, before the first civil chamber of the Paris Court, a case of spectacular “compensatory justice” and an unprecedented amount. It will indeed be up to the latter to grant or not the exequatur of judgments pronounced in 2002 and 2007, by the Nicaraguan justice against the giants of the world chemistry Shell Oil, Dow Chemical and Occidental Chemical. Judgments that the United States refuses to enforce, both because this country protects its companies against winds and tides and because it considers Nicaraguan justice to be untrustworthy.

While this chlorinated pesticide, "1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane", had been banned in the United States since 1977, these large international groups were found guilty, in Nicaragua, of having sold it knowingly …

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