No apologies, but Macron admits guilt for harmful nuclear tests in French Polynesia

“I want truth and transparency,” Macron said in Tahiti’s capital Papeete. There is also a need for better compensation for victims, he said. Tahiti was exposed to radioactive radiation 500 times the maximum permitted level during the nuclear tests.

The French nation owes French Polynesia, Macron said verbatim. “There were risks taken that were not measured, not even by the military. I don’t think we would have done the same tests in Brittany for example. We did it here because it was further away.”

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