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A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed Agent Orange,” used by U.S. troops during the war in Vietnam.
Filed in 2014, the case has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who claims she was a victim of Agent Orange, against 14 chemical firms, including U.S. companies Dow Chemical and Monsanto, now owned by Germany s Bayer.
Tran To Nga told
Reuters the case had been thrown out but that she would appeal.
Tran, who worked as a journalist and activist in Vietnam in her 20s, has said she was suffering from effects including type 2 diabetes and a rare insulin allergy.
French Court Throws Out Lawsuit for ‘Agent Orange’ Damage During Vietnam War By Dominique Vidalon and Yiming Woo | May 11, 2021
PARIS – A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed “Agent Orange,” used by U.S. troops during the war in Vietnam.
Filed in 2014, the case has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who claims she was a victim of Agent Orange, against 14 chemical firms, including U.S. companies Dow Chemical and Monsanto, now owned by Germany’s Bayer.
Tran To Nga told Reuters the case had been thrown out but that she would appeal.
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The German Communist Party (DKP) on May 10 issued a statement expressing its support for the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga and Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims against 14 multinational chemical groups.
Caring for children infected with AO/dioxin (Photo: VNA)
In a statement sent to the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany and the Vietnam News Agency representative office in Berlin, the DKP stated that on May 10, a court in Evry city, Paris ruled that the case fell outside its jurisdiction.
Tran s last fight
Tran To Nga s daughters have been pleading with their mother to move in with one of them, either to Vietnam or to Australia because of the COVID-19 pandemic, her health problems and her advanced age. But leaving France is not an option for the 79-year-old, who is adamant she must stay to fight what she calls her last battle.
Supported by various nongovernmental organizations, Tran sued 14 chemical companies in a court in Evry, a southern suburb of Paris that she has called home for years. All the companies, including US multinationals Dow Chemical and Monsanto now part of the German Bayer Group produced a highly toxic defoliant during the Vietnam War known as Agent Orange, named for the orange labels on the barrels.
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image captionThe US military sprayed Agent Orange defoliant to deprive the communist Viet Cong of cover and food
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.