The State committed “Characterized faults”which he will therefore have to repair, in the chlordecone scandal, this legalized pesticide in the banana groves of Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1972 to 1993 despite his danger. Thus decided on Tuesday, March 11, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal, seized by some 1,300 inhabitants of the Antilles, consolidating the first instance judgment of June 22, 2022.
Victims’ lawyers welcomed this “Capital decision for environmental law”according to them, according to them to create a precedent for pollution files in glyphosate or PFAS. “Thus is sanctioned the faulty behavior which spans several decades”they reacted in a press release. “Likewise, the Court of Appeal disavows the institutional negationism which consisted in refusing to take into account the scientific evidence known since the early 1970s.”
The administrative jurisdiction of appeal, however, strongly limits the right to compensate the victims, following in this the analysis of the public rapporteur expressed during the hearing of February 3. The decision accepts the recognition of a “Moral anxiety damage” For men who have worked only in the banana groves that have been able to establish a direct link between exposure to chlordecone and their prostate cancer.
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