The danger of relay antennas to health finally recognized!

F r e n c h R e p u b l i c

JEAN DESESSARD
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SÉNATOR
OF PARIS

15, RUE DE VAUGIRARD
75291 PARIS CEDEX 06
TÉL : 01 42 34 34 43
FAX : 01 42 34 40 81

www.desessard-senateur.org
j.desessard@senat.fr

Paris, 5February 2009

Press Release

The danger of relay antennas to health finally recognized!

The Senators of the Green Party welcome the decision of the Versailles Court of Appeal to order the dismantling of a Bouygues Telecom relay antenna in Tassin la Demi-Lune in the Rhone.

This decision has confirmed the condemnation pronounced by the Court of Nanterre against the company Bouygues Telecom on the grounds that the presence of a mobile telephone relay antenna close to a house constitutes an abnormal nuisance to one's neighbor that can be removed only by dismantling the antenna.

This ruling gives legal recognition to the risks posed by mobile phone masts to human health, which may result in very serious health problems such as cancers.

The decision relies in particular on the 2007 BioInitiative report, which was prepared by a group of scientists who have no connection to any person or any company in the mobile phone business, and which calls on the public authorities of every country to review the statutory limits of exposure to electromagnetic fields.

It is now up to the Government to take responsibility for setting new standards that provide better protection for the health of the population, and thus prevent a new health catastrophe from happening.

Jean Desessard
Senator of Paris
Contact : 01.42.34.34.43