Complaint accusing Castex and four inaction ministers against climate change declared inadmissible

She had been filed on June 16 by MEP Pierre Larouturou and Cyril Dion and Camille Etienne activists, for abstention to fight a disaster.

Le Monde with AFP

The complaint filed in June at the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) against Jean Castex and four ministers, accusing them of inaction against climate change, was declared inadmissible, announced, Tuesday, October 19, a source Judicial interviewed by the France-Presse agency.

The CJR Requests Commission, only jurisdiction empowered to continue and judge the members of the Government for crimes and offenses committed “in the performance of their duties”, said on 11 October that this complaint was inadmissible, according to This source, which did not specify the reasons for the rejection of the application.

It was filed on June 16 by MEP Pierre Larroutou and Cyril Dion and Camille Etienne activists, for abstention to combat a disaster. In addition to the head of government, Jean Castex, she targeted the ministers of the ecological transition, Barbara Pompili, and the economy, Bruno the Mayor, as well as the ministers delegated to transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebari, and the housing, Emmanuelle Wargon .

“These ministers know it’s serious and do nothing”

The complaint, which listed disasters already suffered by France, insisted on the “insufficiency” of the climate bill and resilience adopted at first reading at the Assembly and its “renunciations” in relation to the proposals of the Convention citizen on the climate he deceives.

“These ministers know that it is serious and do nothing, that’s why we filed a complaint,” said Larouturou. “On the merits, the courtyard says nothing, she does not say it’s wrong,” he said. Booking the opportunity to file a new complaint, MEP added:

“Yesterday, Macron suggested deleting the Court of Justice from the Republic. Our opinion is, on the contrary, how to strengthen the responsibility of the elected officials.”

Last week, the Paris Administrative Court, seized by four non-governmental organizations under the banner “the case of the century” and supported by a petition of more than 2.3 million citizens, ordered the State French to “repair” the consequences of its unwanted commitments to combat warming.

NGOs denounced non-compliance by France of its own commitments in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions, “carbon budgets” ceilings as part of the national low carbon strategy (for the period 2015-2018).

/Media reports.