Paris court finds French state at fault for use of carcinogenic insecticide on Caribbean islands
In a landmark ruling, the Paris administrative court of appeal this week found that the French state must pay damages to victims of the carcinogenic insecticide chlordecone, which it allowed to be used on banana plantations on France’s Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe for three years after it was banned on the mainland. The court has also widened the criteria of eligibility for the compensation. Amélie Poinssot reports.
InIn a landmark ruling this week, the Paris administrative court of appeal found that the French state was at fault for allowing the use of the carcinogenic insecticide chlordecone in the banana plantations in the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe between 1970 and 1993, opening the door, at least partially, to a wider payment of damages for exposure to the insecticide.
