According to a study by the scientific journal "The Lancet planetary health", Paris is the fourth city, out of a thousand, where air pollution kills the most in Europe, behind Madrid, Antwerp and Turin.
Mortality mainly attributable to automobile emissions.
The scientific journal
The Lancet planetary health
published a study on pollution.
Globally, 50,000 deaths could be avoided if the air pollution limits recommended by the WHO were observed.
Above all, Paris ranks fourth among the cities where pollution is the deadliest.
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"Paris is the capital of diesel, unfortunately it is logical that there is a large mortality, linked to this pollution", estimates Olivier Blond, president of the association "Respire".
Indeed, sulfur dioxide would be the toxic gas that kills the most in Paris.
Emitted by automobile traffic and in particular by diesel vehicles, it would be responsible, according to the study, for 2,575 preventable deaths each year.
"It's gigantic", exclaims Olivier Blond.
"It gives an idea of the importance of the crisis we are facing today, a relatively silent crisis."
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The researchers measured another pollutant: ultrafine particles, PM2.5, emitted in particular by chimney fires, industrial agricultural waste.
The situation is less catastrophic since Paris ranks 370th out of around a thousand cities.