国際人権保護団体のAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL と GREEN PEACE は、2006年にイギリスの石油会社のTRAFIGURA会社が,有毒廃棄物をアイボリー=こうストのアビジャンの郊外に不法投棄して、15人死亡、100'000人の中毒者を出した事件で、イギリスの石油会社のTRAFIGURAを犯罪告訴するように要求
La comunidad internacional, denunciada por no impedir el vertido del Probo Koala
El informe final sobre la muerte de 15 personas y el envenenamiento de otras 100.000 pide una investigación criminal de la firma en Reino Unido
Isabel Ferrer La Haya 25 SEP 2012 - 01:08 CET
The international community, accused of failing to prevent the discharge of the Probo Koala
The final report on the death of 15 people and the poisoning of another 100,000 calls a criminal investigation of the firm in the UK
Isabel Ferrer Hague 25 SEP 2012 - 01:08 CET
Amnesty International (AI) and Greenpeace have denounced the international community for failing to prevent the ship Probo Koala, chartered by Trafigura oil multinational, effected in 2006, a toxic waste in Ivory Coast that caused 15 deaths and poisoned 100,000 people. In the final report on the tragedy, published today in Dakar (Senegal), both organizations also request the opening of a criminal investigation against the British branch of the firm. According to them "made the decisions that led to the disaster." The Voyage of the Probo Koala, which dumped illegally in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's capital, 528 tons of waste derived fuel caustic washing unrefined shows gaps in international law on the export of residual contamination. The report coincides with the meeting in Geneva, members of the Basel Convention on the control of hazardous wastes and their disposal.
Six years later, the damage caused by the Probo Koala is still visible. While Trafigura has never admitted responsibility in 2007 reached an agreement with the Government of Cote d'Ivoire and compensated the families of the 15 dead with 150 million euros. In 2009, paid another 33 million for the 30,000 affected complained to the British justice. Thousands of the latter, however, have not yet received the money. The self-styled National Coordination of Toxic Waste Victims of Côte d'Ivoire, took control of the amount and the distribution truncated. Although research continues, last May, Adama Bictogo, integration minister, was dismissed for engaging in fraud.
"To the people of Abidjan have failed their rulers and European countries that did not implement its own laws," according to Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. "The lethal dumping shows that international is slower than multinationals which exploit legal loopholes to their advantage," says Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace. The two organizations also doubted the legality of immunity pact signed with the Ivorian authorities.
The settlements are common in cases of illegal pollution, but the Probo Koala, which first attempted to leave their rubbish in Gibraltar, Italy, Malta, France and the Netherlands, shows the ineffectiveness of the rules governing the shipment of toxic European countries development. Trafigura (the third largest independent company in the industry) has served British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Shell, Total, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. With offices in London, Amsterdam and Geneva, has always maintained that its cargo were "dirty water tanks, gasoline and caustic". In 2009, it became known that the internal correspondence of its director, Claude Daufin, and in 2006 described the toxicity of the waste. But when the UN related "substances with deaths", he claimed "unscientific".
In Amsterdam, demanded 500,000 euros for cleaning the ship. The oil, headquartered Dutch seemed expensive. The charge could not leave the EU, "but the company's contract does not stipulate Tommy Ivorian treatment safely," the study concludes. Five years after the journey allowed the Probo Koala, the Dutch Justice fined one million euros to Trafigura for illegally exporting. Just what the appointment of Geneva tries to control better from now on.
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