The coincidence of the calendar is cruel for the French State.
As he prepares to celebrate the entry into service of the first new generation French nuclear attack submarine (SNA) this Friday, he has just seen the courts condemn him for inexcusable fault after the illness of a former employee of Ile Longue, in Brest (Finistère).
A judgment that is likely to cause discussion this Friday, when the new Minister of the Armies Sébastien Lecornu comes to inaugurate the submarine the Suffren.
The Brest judicial court condemned the Direction des constructions navales, 100% owned by the State at the material time, for inexcusable fault in the occurrence of myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia, in a former electronics engineer of the Long Island base.
The man was exposed during his professional activity, between 1980 and 2011, to radiation from nuclear warheads.
The announcement was made Thursday by the Henri-Pézerat victim support association.
"This judgment is of decisive importance in the recognition by the courts of the serious damage suffered by the irradiated workers of Ile Longue".
Other files still under investigation
The former worker “was exposed without suitable individual or collective protection during thirty years of professional activity to several carcinogenic agents that entered into synergy with each other, and in particular neutron radiation.
The most dangerous”, indicates the association.
The court ordered the increase to its maximum of the pension paid to the former worker whose illness was recognized as occupational a year ago.
Other cases are under investigation for recognition as an occupational disease.
This is not the first time that the inexcusable fault of the Ministry of the Armed Forces has been recognized by the courts.
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