Paris rally in support of Tran To Nga’s Agent Orange lawsuit

More than 200 overseas Vietnamese and French friends gathered with various organizations at the Place de la République in Paris on May 4 (local time) to express their support for Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga and Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims of Vietnam in a lawsuit against chemical companies that supplied herbicides to the US military during the war in Vietnam.

The activity took place ahead of the May 7 hearing at the Paris Court of Appeals, which continues the trial of the 82-year-old woman's lawsuit against chemical companies.

Tran To Nga, born in 1942, suffered from five out of the 17 diseases, disorders, deformities, and malformations associated with dioxin exposure recognized by the US. In 2009, Nga appeared as a witness at the Court of Public Opinion in Paris, France, against the US chemical companies.

Lawyers William Bourdon and Bertrand Repolt will defend Nga and millions of victims of this toxic substance in Vietnam./.