TRIBUNAL: CONTAMINES francais et polynesiens (Paris)
Johan Viroux
http://tinyurl.com/wwg9
> PARIS (AP)--People who say they were victims of French nuclear
> weapons tests announced plans Friday to file a suit seeking
> redress.
>
> The 11 plaintiffs are former soldiers or civilians who took part
> in nuclear tests either in Algeria, a former French colony where
> France tested its first atomic bomb, or in French Polynesia.
>
> Their suit is backed by the families of two alleged test-victims
> who subsequently died and by two associations grouping 5,000
> people. One is an association of nuclear test veterans; the
> other represents Polynesians.
>
> The civil suit, to be filed in Paris by Monday, alleges
> manslaughter, among other charges. It does target specific
> officials.
>
> On a visit to Tahiti in July, French President Jacques Chirac
> said tests have shown there were no ill effects to health from
> France's nuclear detonations in Polynesia.
>
> France detonated at least 123 nuclear weapons in the volcanic
> rock beneath Mururoa Atoll, about 1,200 kilometers southeast of
> Tahiti, between 1975 and 1996. The French exploded another eight
> under nearby Fangataufa Atoll.
>
> France tested its first atomic bomb Feb.13, 1960, at Reggane in
> the Algerian Sahara.
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