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Erika: demonstration in Montparnasse

Publication date 01/04/2000 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

The Erika sank on December 12, 1999, and the oil slick: the Maltese tanker chartered by Total Fina, the Erika, broke in two in the storm, causing a gigantic oil slick. Images on the demonstration organised in Paris, two months later by the Morbihan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, because it is worried about the economic consequences of the oil spill . Around 2,000 to 3,000 people, Parisians and Bretons attended the parade. Interview with Jacqueline TABARLY, widow of the navigator Eric TABARLY. Interview with Gérard d'ABOVILLE, navigator and former MEP RPR.

Update on oil spill

Publication date 30/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Sinking of the Erika, oil slick and martyrdom of the Brittany coast: on December 12, 1999 the Maltese tanker chartered by Total Fina, Erika, breaks in two in the storm about fifty kilometers from the Brittany point. It sinks in 120 metres of water, spilling about 20,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil on the Breton and vendean coasts. The pollution is progressing towards the south of the coast and the plan to pump the fuel contained in the wreck of the Erika, will not be able to begin for several months. Interview with Louis DESHOMMES, Captain of "L'Abeille Supporter" explaining, with the controller in hand, the way to guide this robot.

Opening of the Erika trial

Publication date 12/02/2007 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

The Erika trial has just begun in Paris. The Total group is the main player in the environmental disaster involved in this case. More than seventy civil parts of municipalities and associations are represented, with the aim of obtaining compensation for financial and moral damage. Comment on archival images, alternating with the statement of Philippe DE VILLIERS, and interviews of lawyers of the civil party and Total. Philippe DE, VILLIERS wants this judgment to become a precedent. Me Jean-Pierre MIGNARD, lawyer of the Poitou-Charentes region, civil party insists on the large number of French represented across the civil side. Me Bernard CHABERT, lawyer of the Public Treasury, evokes the fact that the State is civil party in this trial. Me Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, lawyer of Total, keeps the same line of defense on the non responsibility of Total in the claim.

Erika: conclusions of the Touret and Guibert report

Publication date 14/01/2000 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

An unambiguous investigation report into the sinking of the Erika clearly highlights the responsibilities of the shipowner, the charterers and the Italian company Rina, whose procedures remain opaque, if not suspect. The committee that delivered its first conclusions yesterday, does not spare any more TOTAL Fina, which should have consulted all the documents concerning the Maltese tankeur before chartering it. On the other hand, the master of the vessel and his crew are totally excluded. During a press conference, Georges TOURRET, director of the Bureau of Marine Accident Investigation, talks about the mystery surrounding the owner of the tanker and the ineffectiveness of the checks carried out. Jean-Louis GUIBERT, General Secretary of the French Institute of Navigation, talks about the need to do more "structure" checks.

400 kilometres of dirty coastline following the sinking of the Erika

Publication date 07/01/2000 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Naufrage de l'Erika le 12 décembre 1999 : le pétrolier maltais affrété par Total Fina, l'Erika, se casse en deux dans la tempête à une cinquantaine de kilomètres de la pointe bretonne. Etat des lieux et images aériennes de la marée noire touchant le Finistère et l'Ile de Ré et les premières nappes d'hydrocarbures dès le 31 décembre 1999.

Erika Trial: Record of Judgment

Publication date 16/01/2008 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report of the judgment handed down by the Paris Correctional Court in the trial of the sinking of the tanker Erika off the coast of Brittany in 1999, which introduced for the first time ecological damage. The shipowner Giuseppe SAVARESE, the manager Antonio POLLARA, the company RINA and Total are sentenced to pay fines while the captain of the tanker, Karun MATHUR is released. Comments by Daniel SOULEZ LARIVIERE, lawyer of the company TOTAL, Jean Paul LEVY, lawyer of Captain Karun MATHUR, Dominique VOYNET, former Minister of the Environment (1997-2001), Philippe DE VILLIERS, President of the General Council of Vendée, Ségolène ROYAL, President of the Poitou Charentes region. Alternating comments and interviews on factual and infographic images.

Erika shipwreck: appeal proceedings

Publication date 05/10/2009 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Ten years after the ecological disaster, the oil giant is once again before the courts with five other defendants... Faced with them, many local authorities who want to obtain greater compensation and who especially want the notion of ecological harm to be confirmed. Comments on images of illustration, archives and interviews. At the courthouse, Jacques AUXIETTE, President PS of the Loire region, wants the notion of ecological harm to be enshrined. Allain BOUGRAIN-DUBOURG, president of the League for the Protection of Birds, also mentions the recognition of ecological harm. At Le Croisic, Christian HAZEBROUCK, vice-president "Friends of the Oil Spill Collectives", remembers an apocalyptic vision. Véronique LEFEUVRE, a mangrove worker at Guérande, explains that there is still concern about a possible new oil spill.

Waiting for the oil slick on the coast

Publication date 19/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

The Erika sank on December 12, 1999 and oil slick: Total Fina’s chartered tanker, Erika, broke in two in the storm, some 50 kilometres from the Brittany point. Reporting in the coastal departments of Gironde, Charente-Maritime and Vendée, the first preparations are organized with the installation of beacons that will allow to fix floating dams in the event of an oil spill. These preventive measures at the entrance of the ports are part of the Polmar land plan. Interview with Olivier HAVAS, D.D.E. Head of Vendée Maritime Service. Interview with François VICTOR, head of storage center Polmar-Verdon.

The sinking of the Erika

Publication date 12/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Caught in a heavy storm, a Maltese oil tanker, the Erika broke in two this morning off Penmarch in Finistère. The twenty-six crew members were rescued by a Franco-English device. The shipment of 24,000 m3 of oil is still in the ship, but the risk of an oil spill is not completely ruled out. The Atlantic Maritime Prefect, Yves NAQUET RADIGUET, initiated the POLMAR plan. Story of the rescue of the sailors through various testimonials, an extract of the press conference of the Marine Prefect of the Atlantic and the infra-red images of the National Navy showing the Erika broken in two Mani ELANGOVAN, a crew member, expressed his fear when the boat broke in two. Roland PRIMEL, the helicopter mechanic, recounts the panic of the people rescued: "They were fighting almost to recover the strap to hoist them into the helicopter". Yves NAQUET RADIGUET, Atlantic Marine Prefect, explains at a press conference that the tug l'Abeille Flandres is currently trying to move the stern part of the tanker away from the coast in order to avoid significant pollution.

Conclusion of the report on the Erika case

Publication date 04/10/2001 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report on the conclusion of the investigation report into the sinking of the oil tanker Erika officially damning Total for the first time. Comments on archive images and illustration images with the interview of Maître Alexandre VARAUT, lawyer Vendée and Pays de Loire on the compensation of victims.

Erika sinking: Total found responsible

Publication date 25/09/2012 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report on the trial of the Erika in the Court of Cassation where the sentences were confirmed and the Court went even further by deeming that Total was liable for damages, the polluters being the payers. Commentary on factual images, archival images of the oil spill and statement by the lawyers of the civil parties, Corinne LEPAGE and Jean-Pierre MIGNARD, satisfied with this decision, and Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, Total’s lawyer. Black and white Erika nauffarge rangefinder archive, origin unspecified

Different hypotheses after the sinking of the Erika

Publication date 13/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Regarding the sinking of the tanker that broke in two, the charterer, the TOTALFINA group, recalls that three recent checks had been carried out on "ERIKA". As soon as possible, investigators will have to check several hypotheses on the causes of the sinking. Comment on archive images and interview of Bertrand THOUILIN of Total on the origin of the shipwreck.

Review of facts before the opening of the Erika trial

Publication date 10/02/2007 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report on the opening of the Erika trial in Paris, seven years after the sinking of the oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in December 1999. Fifteen legal and natural persons will appear before the Paris Correctional Court including the Total group, the owner of the ship Giuseppe SAVARESE, the commander Karun MATHUR and the control company RINA. The civilian victims estimate their damage to be more than one billion euros and believe that the Total group is largely responsible for the ecological disaster. Assessment of the damage caused by the oil spill. Commentary on illustration images, archive images, alternating with interviews of Christophe PRIOU, mayor UMP of Croizic, civil party, Master Corinne LEPAGE, lawyer of the civil parties and Master Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, counsel for Total.

Total found responsible for the sinking of the Erika

Publication date 08/11/2001 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Examination of Total Fina Elf in the investigation into the sinking of the Erika and the oil slick on the coast of Brittany. Daniel SOULEZ LAVIVIERE claims that Total is not guilty, and that he would plead not guilty if they were in another country. Master Thomas DUMONT hopes that this examination will allow in the future to avoid this kind of tragedy and to ban the circulation of obsolete tankers.

Attempt to pump fuel after sinking of Erika

Publication date 15/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Sinking of the Erika on 12 December 1999 and oil spill: report on the sinking of the Erika off Belle Île and the means implemented by the national navy and other ships (including two British and one Norwegian), either arriving or already on site. Interview with Jean-Pierre CUNY, head of the anti-pollution cell, and Patrick LEJEUNE, the ailette mechanic, describing the technical difficulties encountered in getting the oil pumped, which is too thick and viscous.

Greens protest against the Total Group

Publication date 30/12/1999 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Following the sinking of the Maltese tanker "Erika" on December 12 off the Guilvinec, in Brittany. The oil group Total undertakes to set up an emergency fund of 40 million francs. This is what Thierry DESMAREST, president of Total, has just announced after having been received by the Prime Minister, Lionel JOSPIN. Total is the accused in the eyes of the Greens, who are threatening to boycott the group’s petrol stations and who demonstrated on the Place du Châtelet in Paris. Commentary on factual and archival images and interview of Thierry DESMAREST on Matignon’s porch.

Trial of Erika: Total is appealed in cassation

Publication date 06/04/2012 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report on the Erika sinking trial in December 1999. The Total group appealed to the Court of Cassation arguing that the French court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case. A procedure that could overturn the first two convictions of the group. Back to the facts based on archival images, interviews and reactions of inhabitants of Noirmoutiers. Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, lawyer of the Total group, speaks of the charterer’s non-liability in the disaster. Corinne LEPAGE, lawyer for the civil parties, finds that the review of the trial would be a regression for the environment.

Sinking of Erika: Court of Appeal of Paris

Publication date 30/03/2010 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed this morning the sentences against Total and the other defendants concerning the Erika disaster. It even broadens the principle of "ecological harm", but Total is no longer obliged to pay compensation to the civil parties. Commentary on images of illustration, archives and interviews. Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, lawyer for Total on the rather lenient condemnation of the oil group. Philippe BOENNEC, deputy mayor of Pornic and Corinne LEPAGE, lawyer for the civil parties, find it scandalous that Total escapes compensation for the civil parties. Allain BOUGRAIN-DUBOURG, president of the animal protection league (LPO) is very satisfied with the recognition of the ecological harm in this disaster.

In the Erika trial

Publication date 04/06/2007 From €100.00

Sinking of the Erika

Report devoted to the indictment in the Erika trial which ends this evening. The prosecutor asks for the conviction of the company Total. Commentary on factual images, archival images, and illustration images, which alternate with the interviews of Master Jean-Paul LEVY, lawyer of Captain Mathur, and Master Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, lawyer of Total. According to Master Jean Paul LEVY, the situation of his client, Captain Mathur, was mentioned too quickly during the indictment. As for Master Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE, he attests that the arguments put forward during the indictment are not valid. Dominique VERDEILHAN on the spot mentions the sums claimed as compensation by the victims.

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