2024-08-22 13:00:22
Tran To Nga was interviewed in Hanoi on April 17, 2023.
The chances of a final trial become even slimmer: the chemical company that produced Agent Orange should not face a second trial in France. However, the powerful herbicides released from their factories killed millions of people and polluted the environment for a long time. But on Thursday, August 22, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed that Chen Suya’s request was inadmissible. Ten years ago, the 82-year-old French-Vietnamese filed a lawsuit in a French court against Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Thomson Hayward, Hercules, Uniroyal, Diamond Shamrock, Occidental Chemical Co., Hooker and others. The company takes responsibility. Millions of liters polluted the country’s tropical forests and affected the fighters they sheltered in the 1960s.
Following mergers and name changes that have since taken place, 14 companies are still being prosecuted before French judicial authorities. The whole question is to determine whether the latter were coerced by the U.S. government in times of war, as they maintain, or whether they had leeway in the manufacturing process of such a highly toxic product. It was concocted based on research conducted by the U.S. Army in the 1940s and produces Seveso Dioxin (TCDD), which even today is still producing deformed, shrunken, eyeless, brain-dead children in exposed areas of Vietnam. children of water…
Activist and journalist Chen Suya’s stubborn approach to this war was finally scrutinized by the Justice Court of Evry (Essonne) in 2021. Ms Tran launched her appeal with the help of attorney William Bourdon and his team, who strongly supported her from the start. She and her daughters suffered from a variety of conditions related to Agent Orange.
jurisdictional immunity
On May 7, 2024, in the Tronchet Room of the Paris Court of Justice, a room too small considering the scale of the subject under discussion, members of the public who had come to support Tran to Nga crowded together and stood at the back. Half the seats were occupied by the fifteen or so consultants entrusted by U.S. companies to defend them. The latter requires the Court of Appeal, like the Evry Court, to be able to rely on “jurisdictional immunity”: a rule of customary international law according to which a state cannot be tried by another state for actions taken in the exercise of jurisdiction. sovereignty. Principles that help promote polite relations between capitals.
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