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Wednesday February 10, 2021 – 6:37 p.m.
This Wednesday (February 10), in the Senate, the Guadeloupe senator Victoire Jasmin, questioned the Keeper of the Seals during questions to the government on the issue of judicial information related to chlordecone. It was the Minister of Solidarity and Health who answered him.
The issue of chlordecone came to the Senate this Wednesday, during questions to the government. It was the Guadeloupe senator who directly appealed to the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupont-Moretti. It particularly targeted the judicial investigation opened for poisoning.
Recalling that chlordecone is a “carcinogenic product, that causal links have been made concerning prostate cancer”, that it is an “endocrine disruptor”, she mentioned the possibility of a penal prescription .
“Is there proven concealment of evidence, denial of justice or contempt for populations? », She asked.
.@SenatriceJasmin (@SenateursPS) interrogates @olivierveran on the #chlordecone : “It is an endocrine disruptor, present in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the 70s. The documents of the parliamentary inquiry are sealed until 2044. Is this a denial of justice? ”#QAG pic.twitter.com/lCogjwN8Xt
– Senate Direct (@Senat_Direct) February 10, 2021
“Legitimate emotion”
In the absence of the Minister of Justice, it was Olivier Veran, the Minister of Solidarity and Health who responded.
“We are all aware that chlordecone was a real filth, a real filth (…) which rotted the soil, which has a residual effect for 600 years …”, he began before stressing that the French state had already engaged through three plans and a fourth to come.
On the judicial information, the minister, said to understand “the legitimate emotion” but specified that the government can neither interfere nor comment “on an investigation underway by virtue of the separation of powers.
On the other hand, he welcomed the involvement of civil society, associations and individuals in the chlordecone IV plan, whose resources have “almost doubled”.
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