TELERAMA INFO – The show tracked ecocides, France Télévisions suspended it. But justice seizes one of his documentaries, broadcast in March 2022, in an investigation for endangering others. A form of recognition…
An employee of the Arlit open-cast uranium mine, in the Aïr desert (Niger), inspects rock containing uranium. Photo Pierre Verdy/AFP
By Etienne Labrunie
Published on November 21, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
L‘impact du magazine Green with rage has no limits. The environmental investigation program, canceled by France Télévisions at the end of last season, has once again been contacted by French justice. After the documentary Lyon: alert to eternal pollutants, seized in September 2023 by the Central Office for Combating Environmental Attacks and Public Health (Oclaesp) as evidence in an investigation for endangering others, another report, The Uranium of Angercaught the attention of French justice. The Oclaesp investigations division has in fact sent France Télévisions a letter rogatory dated November 8 to obtain a copy of the documentary broadcast on March 7, 2022. As a year ago in Lyon, the film is included as evidence in the file.
The Uranium of Anger denounced the revolting practices of Orano, the new name of Areva, in terms of uranium processing. It revealed a double ecocide: in Narbonne, in Aude, where the largest uranium conversion plant in Europe, located 3 kilometers from the city center, releases ultra-toxic vapors and releases tens of thousands of tons of waste ; and in Arlit, Niger, where everyone works in the “Areva city” and where residents are exposed to radioactivity that exceeds that of the Chernobyl critical zone. A double health scandal documented by series of samples, hair tests and measurements carried out, as usual, by the team of Green with rage.
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The edifying results and reported by numerous media outlets pushed twenty-seven Nigerien citizens in September 2020, soon joined by five French people and several associations (thirty-nine complainants in total), to file a complaint (against X) for “involuntary homicide, involuntary injuries with temporary interruption of work of more than three months, endangering others, by clearly deliberate violation of an obligation of safety or prudence”. As part of this unprecedented procedure in France, the journalist and producer of the show, Martin Boudot, should be interviewed. “The work of Green with rage, which notably delivered conclusive scientific elements, brought an important impetus to instruction”, underlines Élise Le Gall, lawyer at the Paris bar at the origin of the complaint.
What a paradox to see Green with rage, triple selected for the Albert-London prize this year, requested by the courts, to now be deprived of investigation and distribution. A decision by France Télévisions which aroused the incomprehension and anger of several climate defense associations. In four seasons and fourteen investigations, the magazine, directly or indirectly associated with seven ongoing investigations, has nevertheless proven that it is of public utility.
