New failure of parliamentarians to have the state responsibility recognized in the chlordecone – Liberation scandal

Second attempt, second failure. This Wednesday, April 9, the senators looked at a text providing for « recognition of the responsibility of the State and the compensation of the victims » In the Chlordecone case And once again, the latter did not resist the parliamentary test. In February 2024, the National Assembly had adopted a bill which already aimed to officially act the faults of the State in very large-scale contamination of Guadeloupe and Martinique by this ultra-toxic pesticide, used intensively in banana groves between 1972 and 1993 to fight against the weev. But the legislative project had been abandoned during the parliamentary shuttle. Almost a year later, a new setback, coming straight from the government, which originally announced its support for this bill.

While contained the text carried by the Guadeloupe Senator Dominique Théophile? Article 1, central, act « State responsibility in moral and health damage » suffered by the inhabitants of the two territories and engaged the latter to « Complete all the victims of this contamination to the chlordecone » – that « This