The International Agency for Cancer of the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogenic product, since the end of 2018 it is prohibited in France for domestic use.
The German company Bayer It appears this Monday before a Court of France for the alleged link between exposure to glyphosate, his most prominent product, of a young man when he was in his mother’s belly and the serious malformations that suffers. Civil trial could “establish a preceding In France, where other possible victims of the herbicide most used in the world could carry their cases “more quickly” before justice.
The facts date back to 2006, when his mother Sabine Grataloup used glyphosate to undo a riding track, which sprinkled “several times a day, without any special protection.” At that time, I didn’t know she was pregnant with “several weeks.”
In 2018, his parents denounced the firm Monsanto, that Bayer had just acquired. This American company provided the glyphosate molecule to the Glyper brandthe herbicide used by Grataloup, 54. Glyper is “a Roundup resale product”, the well -known Monsanto brand, and the containers did not mention the danger of malformation, said the woman, who said the company minimized her toxicity before the regulatory authorities globally.
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Malformations in the young man
Théo was born in May 2007 with the esophagus and evil trachea. Since then, it has gone through 55 surgical interventions to be able to feed normally, but continues to breathe and speaking through a throat opening. The family will request a legal evaluation within a process of claiming responsibility, with the ultimate goal of requesting compensation for damages if the causal relationship between glyphosate and adolescent disability is confirmed.
The economic reparation of France to the young
The French compensation fund for victims of pesticides recognized in 2022 the link between herbicide and the situation of the young man, which receives DIt is then 1,000 euros per month of repair. Bayer has been affected by thousands of judicial demands that allege that their roundup product contains a carcinogenic agent. In March 2025, an American court condemned the German company to pay 2.1 billion dollars in a case related to Roundup.
Source: Ambito
