CO-CURE: MCS, FMS, CFS/ME: Important legal precedent set in Spain

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:49:31 -0400

From: Co-Cure Moderator <rfcolliton@...>

Subject: MED: MCS, FMS, CFS/ME: Important legal precedent set in Spain

Submitted by Clara Valverde <formacionsalud@...>:

A Judge in Spain Grants Full Disability for Chemical Sensitivities for

Environmental Accident

Barcelona, Spain, July 1, 2010

A judge in Barcelona, Spain, has passed a sentence that recognizes, for

the first time, that the full disability of a woman with Fibromyalgia and

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) was due to an environmental accident

that happened in the industrial area of the town of L'Ametlla del Vall=E8s

(near Barcelona). The lawyers' firm, Colectivo Ronda, informs

today that the woman, I.M., was affected by an environmental accident in

which several chemical substances were spillled and mixed together. This

exposure provoked in I.M. severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephelytis,

Fibromyalgia and MCS.

For this, the judge has granted the woman, retroactively, a lifelong

pension of 1,450.95 euros a month.

The lawyers of Colectivo Ronda have expressed their satisfaction with the

judge's decision and have also announced that they will also sue the mayor

of the town of L'Ametlla del Vall=E8s **for having acted irresponsibly

with serious consequences to the health of humans and the environment**.

The environmental accident occurred in 2008 when the residents of

Tramuntana Street in L'Ametlla noticed a strong chemical smell coming from the

sewer system, which were attributed to the building of a new firehall in M=E0s

F=E0brega, in the industrial complex of Monguit.

" For reasons which are hard to understand, the decison was made to dump

chemical industrial waste in the sewer system of the subdivision " , say the

representatives of Colectivo Ronda.

After a few days, I.M. had to go on sick leave with strong migraines,

respiratory infections and soon after that she began to have all the symptoms of

Fibromyalgia, " which, like in other cases of chemical intoxication, they

have left this person totally disabled. "

Jaume Cortes, lawyer for Coletivo Ronda and expert in work health

prevention and environmental illnesses, instead of presenting the case as a work

accident, he presented it as environmental accident. This is the first time

that a judge has ruled this type of sentence in Spain according to this

lawyers' firm.

EFE News Service

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_http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=3D438693_

(http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=3D438693)

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