Agent Orange: French court rejects lawsuit against chemical companies

[SouthBayDem]

Source: BBC

A French court has thrown out a bid by a former journalist to hold companies to account for supplying the toxic herbicide "Agent Orange" during the Vietnam War.

Tran To Nga, 79, wanted 14 agrochemical giants including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical put on trial for the crime of ecocide - destroying the environment.

However, the court in Evry, near Paris, declined to hear the case.

It said it had no jurisdiction over the wartime actions of the US government.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57061857

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Ah yes, the guys who invented aspirin and aniline dyes in the 1880s

went on to bigger and more profitable things, from mustard gas to holocaust drugs to pesticides to Agent Orange.

What a world it's been!