Dans le scandale du chlordécone, les victimes n'entendent pas en rester là

LIONEL CHAMOISEAU / AFP Several thousand people demonstrate in Fort-de-France, Martinique, on February 27, 2021 against the threat of prescription in the judiciary file of the chlordecone, an insecticide accused of having poisoned the French west indies island. - The insecticide was authorized between 1972 and 1993 in the banana plantations of the Antilles islands, polluting water and agricultural production, while its toxicity and its persistent power in the environment had been known since the 1960s. More than 90% of the adult population in Guadeloupe and Martinique is contaminated by chlordecone, according to Sante Public France, and the West Indian populations have one of the highest incidence rate of prostate cancer in the world. (Photo by Lionel CHAMOISEAU / AFP)