French lawyers plan Libya lawsuit against Sarkozy

[The Northerner]

TRIPOLI — Two French lawyers said they planned to initiate legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday for crimes against humanity over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya.

A Libyan justice ministry official Ibrahim Boukhzam told reporters in Tripoli that Jacques Verges and Roland Dumas had offered to represent families he said were victims of the NATO bombing campaign.

"The two lawyers are going to file a complaint in the French courts in the name of the Libyan families," Boukhzam said, at a press conference on Sunday attended by 30 representatives of the families.

Verges, whose past clients include Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal, denounced a "French state led by hoodlums and killers.

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[kristopher]

1. I don't like Sarkozy..

I hope they review the timing of this decision. The only thing I know of that was accomplished by the invasion was that it wiped the multiple Fukushima meltdowns off the screens of the world's TV in an instant.


Areva was already in financial difficulty (and Areva is extremely important to France), and Fukushima was an economic disaster of the first order for them since the result is almost sure to be a rejection of nuclear by all the potential buyers who have not already set out on that path...

AREVA is a world-leading company in nuclear energy.<7> It is the only company with a presence in each industrial activity linked to nuclear energy: mining, chemistry, enrichment, combustibles, services, engineering, nuclear propulsion and reactors, treatment, recycling, stabilization, and dismantling. AREVA also claims to offer technological solutions for CO₂-free energy; and produces earth leakage circuit breaker technologies.

Four main subsidiaries form the core of AREVA:
AREVA NP (formerly Framatome ANP) — Nuclear Power: develops and builds nuclear reactors; Siemens had a 34% stake in AREVA NP until April 2011.
AREVA NC (formerly Cogema) — Nuclear Cycle: covers the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from mining to waste disposal. Owns Eurodif
AREVA TA (formerly Technicatome) : develops and builds research reactors and reactors for the naval propulsion
AREVA T&D — Transmission and Distribution: power transmission and distribution. It was bought from Alstom on 9 January 2004.<9> Currently, AREVA T&D Division has been sold to ALSTOM and Schneider Electric.

The major partners of AREVA include: Euriware, STMicroelectronics, Eramet, and SAFRAN.

AREVA is part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) alliance, along with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Washington Group International and BWX. GNEP is a plan initiated in 2006 to form an international partnership to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nuclear weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électricité_de_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDF_Energy