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Call for Murder Charges to be brought Over Toxic Dumping

Alex Constantine - September 17, 2009

Petition filed in Dutch court claims Trafigura knew waste that maimed thousands in Ivory Coast was hazardous

By Cahal Milmo
Independent, 18 September 2009

Trafigura, the oil-trading company at the centre of the scandal caused by the dumping of tons of toxic waste in one of the world's poorest countries, could be prosecuted for murder after a dossier of evidence was submitted to a court in the Netherlands yesterday, alleging that the sludge caused deaths and serious injuries. ...

Emails between Trafigura employees submitted to the court in The Hague are claimed by Greenpeace to show that the company knew the waste – described in one internal memo as "the shit" – was potentially hazardous and could not be exported outside the European Union. ...

Full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/call-for-murder-charges-to-be-brought-over-toxic-dumping-1789421.html

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