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Vietnam Agent Orange trial against chemical companies opens in France
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25/01/2021 - 14:18 A US helicopter sprays Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Huey Defoliation National Archives 4 min A French court will on Monday hear the case of Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old French-Vietnamese woman, against a dozen chemical multinationals for supplying Agent Orange defoliant to the US military during the Vietnam War. Advertising Read more
The trial opens on Monday 25 January before the court of justice in the southern Paris suburb of Evry .
Tran To Nga, born in 1942 in what was then French Indochina, worked as a journalist and activist in Vietnam in her 20s.
French Academic Under Police Protection After Criticising Islam
19 Dec 2020
A French law professor has been placed under police protection after referring to religions, including Islam, as “sexually transmitted” during a lecture to around 600 students in October.
The 50-year-old associate professor, who works at Aix-Marseille University (AMU), is alleged to have said both Islam and Judaism are, after a fashion, sexually transmitted.
She said: “One of the biggest problems we have with Islam, and it is not the only one, unfortunately, is that Islam does not recognise freedom of conscience. It’s still absolutely terrifying.”
The French Human Rights League has filed an official criminal complaint for the use of a “racial slur”. Since her identity was revealed, the professor has received death threats and is now under police protection,