On Monday, two Parisian investigating judges dismissed the long-term investigation into the poisoning of the West Indies with chlordecone, a pesticide authorized in banana plantations until 1993. This dismissal was feared by elected officials and inhabitants of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Two Parisian investigating judges on Monday dismissed the long-term investigation into the poisoning of the West Indies with chlordecone, a pesticide authorized in banana plantations until 1993, AFP learned Thursday from a source familiar with the matter. . This dismissal of high symbolic value, which was also requested by the Paris prosecutor’s office in its requisitions at the end of November, was feared by elected officials and inhabitants of Martinique and Guadeloupe, who have regularly denounced a risk of “denial of justice”.
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