Paris-Thousands of marchers filled Paris streets demanding a criminal investigation into companies that knowingly exposed their employees to asbestos.
Organized by Andeva (Association Nationale de Dιfense des Victimes de l'Amiante or The National Association Defending Asbestos Victims) they demanded more government investigations into companies that knowingly exposed their workers to asbestos and should be held liable for their deaths.
The demonstrations followed successful prosecution of Alstom Power Boilers who were ordered to pay 75,000 euros for exposing workers to asbestos and causing at least ten deaths to date. The trial was closely followed by many asbestos victims groups both in France and around the world.
Asbestos was completely banned in 1997 from the country but with long latency periods, deaths continue to occur at a rate of nearly 3,000 every year. Andeva estimates that within 20 years the number of deaths could pass 100,000.
Andeva believes that criminal prosecution is the only way to expose and educate the public about asbestos. See the article I wrote about U.S. corporations and asbestos at the bottom of the page.
Corporate Abuse
http://ezinearticles.com/?A-History-of-Corporate-Abuse:-Mesothelioma&id=269451
For further information on the activities of Andeva see http://andeva.free.fr.
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You will find that governments that are "owned" by rich asbestos companies don't exactly help the people dying from agonising diseases caused by asbestos. In fact, like America and climate change, they deny it... viciously, and with malice and profit aforethought. Ooh, I'm a bit cynical, me. Sorry, the world made me do it.