Clothilde Nonner is one of the few Parisians who love it when the weather is gloomy in Paris. For good reason, when it rains or when it is windy in the capital, air pollution is less incisive. Living in Paris for 30 years, this 57-year-old woman has become addicted to Airparif bulletins (an association for monitoring air quality in Île-de-France) that she watches four or five times a day. A habit that she justifies by her state of health weakened by air pollution Parisian. She also lodged a complaint with the Paris administrative court on Wednesday June 7 against the state. She considers herself a victim of the poor air quality in Paris and asks for compensation for her health problems which she attributes to this environmental nuisance. She assures France Info that she has always been a great athlete and led a healthy life. “I was a professional dancer before being a yoga teacher so I was always athletic, I never smoked.” Despite this healthy lifestyle, this active woman began a few years ago to accumulate health concerns: chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, sinus operations, asthma.
A legal battle on behalf of all the victims
In December 2016, while Paris was going through a long peak in pollution, Clothilde developed bronchitis which degenerated into acute pericarditis.
Treated for life for asthma, she engages in a legal fight to recognize the responsibility of the State vis-à-vis the deleterious consequences of health on the population. A battle that she does not lead alone since it is supported by several associations, which hope through her to make the voices of other victims heard.
Air pollution is responsible for 48,000 deaths each year in France, revealed in September 2016, the weekly Epidemiology Bulletin of the Public Health France agency. She’s there third cause of death in France after tobacco and alcohol.
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