Health | Asbestos: new victims soon to be recognized?

It is a slow “hecatomb” of which the Centaur has been keeping track for thirty years. “There is not a week where we do not learn of the death, the illness of someone”, sighs Marc Crégut, president of this ciotadenne association for the defense of victims of asbestos. the Shipyards of La Ciotat, it was more than 6,500 workers, and 12,000 subcontractors. In three decades, the Centaure has already defended more than a thousand victims of this mineral fiber which, for a long time, was considered “magical”: non-flammable, incredible thermal, acoustic and electrical insulation, rot-proof… In industry shipbuilding as well as in construction, this material was used everywhere for a long time, before France banned its use in 1997.Ca