About fifty Yemeni citizens on Tuesday submitted a summary summons against Total Energy before the Nanterre Judicial Court, accusing it of contributing to the pollution of the lands and waters of a Yemeni region.

As Agence France-Presse learned from their lawyer, which confirms information published by the newspaper “Le Canard Enchaine”.

The plaintiffs in the summons, represented by lawyer Fyodor Rylov, confirmed that they are suffering “severe and permanent damage that is a direct consequence of the oil pollution caused by Total as well as its business partner Petromasilia” in the Hadhramaut desert region, where the energy giant has been investing oil wells since the 1990s.< /p>

In the summons, Yemeni citizens denounced an “economic, social, environmental and cultural disaster” that harms the lands in which they live and cultivate.