Justice considers that the electricity company has failed to prevent the accident of the nuclear power plant in 2011.
Le Monde with AFP
A Tokyo court sentenced four former TEPCO electricity supplier on Wednesday July 13 to 13,000 billion yen (95 billion euros) of damages. The justice considers that the electricity company almost prevents the accident of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, according to local media.
This decision is the culmination of a legal proceedings launched in 2012 by shareholders of Tepco. This is the first time that former leaders of the group have been judged responsible for the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, which occurred after a gigantic tsunami.
Since then, as an operator of the power plant, Tepco faces numerous legal proceedings, including on the part of inhabitants who had been forced to evacuate the region because of the radiation, under conditions sometimes very trying.
In 2019, three former leaders of Tepco prosecuted by criminal evacuates of the region had been acquitted at first instance. The civil parties appealed. These ex-leaders who are innocent at the time are among the four people convicted on Wednesday.