Two Parisian investigating judges have announced to the plain communities and associations their intention to close this file, which could be concluded by a non-place.
by (with AFP)
The Public Health Site of the Judicial Court of Paris, on 25 March, delivered the end of the investigations without questioning in the Antilles ‘Antilles’ Survey in Chlordecone, learned AFP, Tuesday April 5, from sources close to the file.
Two Parisian investigating judges announced to the complainant communities and associations their intention to close this file without pronouncing indicate, thus orienting it to a non-place.
This notice of end of information opens a time allowing the parties of the procedure to signify their intention to comment, request acts, etc., before the requisitions of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office and the final decision of the judges of instruction.
Most majority prescribed
In 2006, several Martiniques and Guadeloupean associations had filed a complaint for poisoning, endangering the life of others and administering harmful substance.
Since 2008, the Public Health Pole of the Paris Court of Justice is responsible for judicial information, but the investigating judges have taken part in 2021 with several civil parties of their analysis, according to which the facts would be, in their The large majority, prescribed.
Two months later, Rémy Heitz, then Paris Prosecutor, had estimated in a daily interview France-Antilles that “the vast majority of the facts denounced was already prescribed” upon filing of the complaints in 2006.
Professional disease recognized
Chlordecone, a pesticide forbidden in France in 1990 but continued to be authorized in the banana fields of Martinique and Guadeloupe by ministerial derogation until 1993, provoked a significant and sustainable 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, and the Caribbean populations have an incidence rate of the highest prostate cancer.
These prostate cancers related to exposure to chlordecone have been recognized as an occupational disease in December, paving the way for compensation of farmers and agricultural workers.