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For people downvoting the parent, this is a "joke" in France (and based on his pseudo I guess he might be french). When the Chernobyl accident happened, french
by JeanMarcS 9y ago
For people downvoting the parent, this is a "joke" in France (and based on his pseudo I guess he might be french). When the Chernobyl accident happened, french authorities told the population that the radioactive cloud haven't cross the french skies. But evidences quickly showed that it did over the France borders countries.
So we say here that it never happened because the cloud was blocked at the border.
It's now an historical reference of government lying to our face without second thoughts.
- pm90 9y agoAh, thanks for clarifying that. If I may ask: aren't there mechanisms that prevent the French State from lying so blatantly to its citizenry? How was this ultimately found out?
- JeanMarcS 9y agoWhen thyroid cancers started increasing in south east France, what was a rumor (imagine a cloud consciously avoiding France...) begins to be a proof that leaded to an investigation. More infos (in English) here https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-hid-info-on-effects-of-Chernobyl-cloud_134486.html https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-hid-inf... I'm afraid I don't know how it ended (I wasn't in France at that time) Edit : it seems the case was dismissed (as it is often in France when government is implicated...) https://amp.rfi.fr/en/asia-pacific/20110907-french-court-dismisses-chernobyl-nuclear-fallout-case-after-10-years https://amp.rfi.fr/en/asia-pacific/20110907-french-court-dis...