The Senate adopts a regulation which acknowledges the “share of responsibility” of the State | EUROtoday

The Senate adopted virtually unanimously, Thursday, June 12, a invoice geared toward recognizing the “Share of responsibility” of the state within the chlordecone scandal within the Antilles. Even if it’ll take a brand new examination of deputies on this textual content, he now appears capable of succeed, whereas many parallel initiatives had aborted in recent times.

The textual content of the deputy (Socialist Party, Guadeloupe) Elie Califer has now acknowledged the French State “Its share of responsibility in health, moral, ecological and economic damage” attributable to this pesticide. Prohibited in France in 1990, he continued to be licensed within the banana groves of Guadeloupe and Martinique till 1993 by ministerial derogation, regardless of WHO alerts on its dangerousness. More than 90 % of the grownup inhabitants of the 2 islands is contaminated, in line with the National Health Safety Agency (ANSES), which concluded in July 2021 to a possible causal relationship between Chlordecone and threat of prostate most cancers.

“It is a strong gesture of dignity and recognition with regard to all the victims”praised the abroad minister Manuel Valls, saying that “Never had a minister said so clearly before the Parliament what was the responsibility of the State and how it should be assumed”.

Compromise textual content

The higher room, nonetheless, made vital modifications to the unique textual content which depart a “Bitter taste” to some: “It is a renunciation emptied of any symbolic significance, without any operational, financial or legal substance”regretted the senator (rally of democrats, progressive and impartial, Martinique) Frédéric Buval.

His parliamentary group, an alliance between ultramarine and macronists, additionally abstained in the course of the vote. He challenges sure declines in comparison with the model voted within the National Assembly, which evoked the ” responsibility “ of the Republic within the broad sense and never the “Share of responsibility” of the state, as voted within the Senate.

Others regretted the absence of an actual compensation fund for the victims, even when the textual content nonetheless supplies for the State “Sit” For ” objective “ compensation for “All victims” contaminated in an expert framework or not.

Another reproach: the withdrawal of the idea of “Moral anxiety damage” In the sector of state duty, after a second deliberation requested by the federal government and negotiations between the chief and the right-centist alliance, the bulk within the Senate. This time period designates the ensuing psychological penalties “The awareness of running a high risk of developing a serious pathology”in line with a latest judgment of the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal, which thought-about that this injury was established for a number of victims.