An appeal court upholds ruling finding the French state guilty in Caribbean pesticide case

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An appeal court upholds ruling finding the French state guilty in Caribbean pesticide case

An appeals court in Paris has upheld a ruling that found the French government guilty of wrongful negligence for using a banned pesticide in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

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Nearly 1,300 inhabitants of Guadeloupe and Martinique claimed compensation after being exposed to chlordecone, a highly toxic pesticide that contaminated the overseas departments.

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The chlordecone IV plan, which runs until 2027, is intended to provide responses to the massive contamination of the West Indies by the pesticide. Its coordinator Edwige Duclay gives an initial assessment of the situation.

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Paris – France must compensate people in the Antilles who fear illness from decades of pesticide use on banana plantations there. A Paris appeals court ruled this, finding that the state had made multiple errors, including in renewing the approval of the harmful pesticide...

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Nearly 1,300 residents of Guadeloupe and Martinique are demanding compensation after being exposed to chlordecone, a highly toxic pesticide that contaminated the overseas departments. Source