The judges of the chamber specializing in litigation related to the environment and public health decided on Friday May 19 that the asbestos health scandal would not give rise to a criminal trial. The Paris Criminal Court had given itself until now to decide the question, while the first complaint in this area dates back to 1996.
This decision was rendered after debates related to the admissibility of a collective direct summons from nearly 1,850 victims or beneficiaries who opposed, on March 9, their lawyer, Antoine Vey, to those of fourteen alleged “national officials” in that case.
The court finally pronounced the nullity of this procedure because of its “imprecision”explaining that the defendants were not “not in a condition to be able to link what is reproached to each” to specific victims.
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