French court dismisses case over Agent Orange use in Vietnam War

Evry, France (AFP) May 10, 2021

An elderly French-Vietnamese woman failed Monday in her bid to sue Monsanto and other makers of the toxic chemical Agent Orange over its use by the US as a weapon during the Vietnam War, after a French court ruled that the companies had legal immunity because they were working for a sovereign government. Tran To Nga, born in 1942 in what was then French Indochina, accused 14 agrochemicals fi