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CHLORDECONE - The examining magistrate's chamber agrees to transmit a priority issue of constitutionality (QPC) to the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation)
In deciding to transmit the QPC relating to the crime of poisoning, the Investigating Chamber has just taken a salutary decision. Civil parties have just won a decisive victory which may be useful in other industrial pollution cases (water, PFAS, pesticides, etc.).
This is the second time that the courts have heard our arguments in this case. The first time, on June 24 2022, the Paris Administrative Court recognized the State's failures in managing the Chlordecone case.
The second time, today, with the transmission of the QPC, could lead to the reversal of the iniquitous decision to dismiss the case – a decision which will be challenged - on the merits - in 2025 before the investigating court.
Now, this is only a stage victory; the road to truth and reparation is still long and full of pitfalls.
But our determination remains unshaken because we know we can count on the mobilization of the people, on the unity of the social movement and on the collective work of lawyers and jurists committed to fighting the worst crime committed by France since colonization, the slave trade and slavery.
In deciding to transmit the QPC relating to the crime of poisoning, the Investigating Chamber has just taken a salutary decision. Civil parties have just won a decisive victory which may be useful in other industrial pollution cases (water, PFAS, pesticides, etc.).
This is the second time that the courts have heard our arguments in this case. The first time, on June 24 2022, the Paris Administrative Court recognized the State's failures in managing the Chlordecone case.
The second time, today, with the transmission of the QPC, could lead to the reversal of the iniquitous decision to dismiss the case – a decision which will be challenged - on the merits - in 2025 before the investigating court.
Now, this is only a stage victory; the road to truth and reparation is still long and full of pitfalls.
But our determination remains unshaken because we know we can count on the mobilization of the people, on the unity of the social movement and on the collective work of lawyers and jurists committed to fighting the worst crime committed by France since colonization, the slave trade and slavery.
