Appeal for support for DU victim

by: CADU

France: On 13 May 2005 a French victim of Gulf War Syndrome, M Christian Prud'homme, who lives at Riquewihr (Haut Rhin) began a hunger strike to try to get the French Army to award him a pension.

He had served seven years in the Gulf and had had to be brought back on a stretcher. His condition has become worse over the years: he has lost his sight, suffers from dreadful muscular pain and is dependent on a wheelchair. He has tried for years to get the army to provide a pension to pay for the care he needs. By now he is very weak and has lost 30 kilos but he is determined to pursue the hunger strike to the end - justice or death.

Campaign Against depleted Uranium is asking people to write to the French Minister of Defence, Mme Alliot-Marie at courrier-ministre@sdbc.defense.gouv.fr to express their concern at the lack of action on the part of her department. Please ask her to have the case of M Prudhomme and those of Gulf War veterans in similar circumstances investigated as soon as possible by competent authorities that are independent of the army.

The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium
Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR UK
(tel/fax +44 (0)161 273 8293; email info (at) cadu.org.uk).

Source: Campaign Against Depleted Uranium