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As part of claiming the authorities’ acknowledgement of a link between the veteran’s service on nuclear test facilities and thyroid cancer cases. The acknowledgment campaign is lead by socialist deputy Mrs. Christiane Taubira who seeks to pass the law which recognises causal relations between nuclear tests and illnesses which affected the then participating soldiers as well as inhabitants of the region. The second front Chirac administration is facing as regards this file while being on the verge of presidential elections is the scientific front lead by French scientist Florent de Vathaire French scientific research institute’s Director. This latter resumed claiming from the French Defence Ministry to unveil its secret reports on nuclear tests carried out in the Algerian Sahara and the Antilles Islands. This move is to help scientists define effects on thyroid cancer contracted by people who lived during that period. Contrary to French official reports denying the existence of nuclear radiations in the neighbouring regions of the sites subject to tests, the fact finding commission set by the Antilles Island Parliament issued some other reports contrary to the official ones. They reveal that nuclear radiations resulting from the French nuclear tests still exist all over the islands. The association is requesting for raising the quality of “defence secrecy” from military medical files concerning the tests and recognizing the source of the victims’ diseases. M. Iouanourene | ||||||||||||||||||
French Nuclear testing still taking lives