Petition in the offing to urge France to compensate nuclear trials victims

The Head of the Association of the Nuclear Victims’ Veterans Jean Luc Sans has asserted that the Morin law issued in 2010 concerning the compensation of the victims of nuclear trials in the Algerian desert and French Polynesia should be imperatively reviewed.

He has indicated that a petition is due to be drawn up by the end of February calling at the same time the  Algerians to actively participate to this initiative.

Talking the day before yesterday to the Algerian Press Agency Sans declared” Even if the request for the revision of the law is not on top of the agenda of the French authorities, it is for the association and the parliamentarians alike”.

He went on saying that a first meeting took place last October between the association and members of the parliament followed by a second one in February 6 to look at the way to review the manner conducted by the committee in charge if the compensation of the victims

To recall, 32 files forwarded by the Algerian victims of the nuclear trials in the desert were rejected last December by the special committee created in the wake of the issue of Morin law, considering the diagnosed illnesses were not direct consequences of the nuclear trials.

He pointed at the declarations made by the French president François Hollande during his state visit to Algeria on December 19, when he said that the law should be implemented in full.