J'avais mal au ventre, je vomissais, j'avais mal à la tête. La justice anglaise vient de leur donner gain de cause. About 108,000 people sought treatment for nausea, headaches, vomiting and abdominal pains, and at least 15 died. Mais elles n'ont jamais baissé les bras.

After the waste from the ship was discharged in Abidjan, people living near the discharge sites began to suffer from a range of illnesses (nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, breathlessness, headaches, skin damage, and swollen stomachs). The Dutch prosecutors accused Trafigura of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Côte d’Ivoire. Grâce à Dieu, avant-hier on nous a dit que l'on a gagné au combat. Timeline. When the regional court in Amsterdam decided in 2008 not to prosecute Trafigura's co-founder and director Claude Dauphin, the prosecutors appealed the court's decision. But in an interview he said there was a real risk that millions of dollars destined for the victims would simply disappear into undeserving pockets. Up to $45 million in compensation is at stake, intended for about 30,000 victims of an oil-based sludge The waste was shipped by Trafigura, an international commodities trading giant. Trafigura claimed it had no grounds for suspecting that Tommy would improperly dispose of the waste. Mais entre négociations internationales, corruption et détournement d'argent, obtenir dédommagement a été difficile pour certaines d'entre elles. In September 2009, the parties to the UK lawsuit reached a settlement agreement in which Trafigura agreed to pay each of the 30,000 claimants a certain amount, approximately $1500. The Ivorian court will now decide whether to follow that recommendation. “Mr. The claimants' lawyers dispute the authenticity of this organization and Mr Gohourou's authority to distribute the funds to the claimants. The ship left the port of Amsterdam without discharging its waste. « Ca a commencé par les mauvaises odeurs. The ship was chartered by the London office of Trafigura, a Dutch international petroleum trader. Sept 2006 - Thousands in Ivory Coast report falling ill from waste in Abidjan. This injunction came after counsel for the claimants presented evidence that the company had been contacting individual claimants urging them to change their sworn statements. In mid-February 2010 the parties reached an agreement about the distribution of the settlement funds. On est tombé malade. Les faits remontent à 2006, lorsqu'un cargo, le Probo Koala, a déversé des tonnes de résidus toxiques autour d'Abidjan, faisant officiellement 17 morts, et des dizaines de milliers de victimes. The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) (French: Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI)) was a UN-NATO peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) whose objective was "to facilitate the implementation by the Ivorian parties of the peace agreement signed by them in January 2003" (which aimed to end the Ivorian Civil War). La réclamation des victimes pour dommages et intérêts a été acceptée par le juge qui a conclu que Leigh Day avait manqué à [son] obligation de diligence envers les victimes. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mr. Day said. Sludge Ends in Tragedy for Ivory Coast - NYTimes.com October 1, 2006 "In February 2008, Dutch prosecutors served notice that they intend to file criminal charges against Trafigura, among others, for its alleged part in the disposal of waste in Côte d’Ivoire. The parties released a joint statement that said, among other things, "independent experts are unable to identify a link between exposure to the chemicals released from the slops and deaths, miscarriages, still births, birth defects, loss of visual acuity or other serious and chronic injuries.

Après toutes ces années, je ne pensais pas que l'on pourrait aboutir. « C'est une victoire importante parce que des gens ont souffert. Les faits remontent à 2006, lorsqu'un cargo, le Probo Koala, a déversé des tonnes de résidus toxiques autour d'Abidjan. A gang of about two dozen Demo- crats mill around his seat. - [FR] Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH): En Côte d'Ivoire, une manifestation des victimes des déchets toxiques a été empêchée, jeudi matin à Abidjan, par la police ivoirienne. Presque tous les membres de sa famille sont tombés malades. By March 2010, Leigh Day had made an agreement with the organisation for 23,000 of the victims to be paid their share of the settlement sum, leaving 6,624 claimants with nothing......[T]he court ruled Leigh Day did not take proper steps to protect the settlement sum from being acquired dishonestly by third parties making claims to it......[A] Leigh Day spokesperson said: ‘We are entirely sympathetic with the position the claimant...‘We fought hard to gain compensation for all 30,000 of our clients and we were devastated when some of the monies were misappropriated. Les autorités ivoiriennes ont alors recensé 17 morts et des milliers victimes.