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While French justice dismissed the case in January in the case of the health scandal of chlordecone, which contaminated the soils and the populations of the Antilles, archives consulted by Radio France indicate that the health risk was known from the years 1980.
Could the contamination of Caribbean soils by chlordecone have been avoided? Last January, the French justice pronounced a dismissal on this health scandal, considering in particular that the knowledge of the time was not sufficient to rule on the dangerousness of pesticides. But 17 years of missing archives failed magistrates to understand what scientists knew at the time.
Informations “concealed“?
“I think that this information has rather been concealed, since since the start of our fight, it is the public ministry […] who did everything to hinder our quest for justice and truth“, denounces Harry Durimel, environmental mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeoupe) and lawyer. According to some of these documents, consulted by the investigation unit of Radio France, the scientists were in fact alerting of the the yearses 1980 on the dangers of chlordecone.
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