French court dismisses lawsuit over ‘Agent Orange’ damage
The court rules it does not have jurisdiction to judge a case involving the US government’s wartime actions
10 May 2021 - 21:12
Paris — A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed “Agent Orange”, used by the US army during the war in Vietnam.
Filed in 2014, the case has launched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who claims she was a victim of Agent Orange, against 14 chemical firms, including US companies Dow Chemical and Monsanto, now owned by Germany's Bayer...
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