Nuclear giant EDF found guilty of spying on Greenpeace

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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/dont-hack-the-hippies-nuclear-giant-edf-found/blog/37768/


Don’t Hack the Hippies: Nuclear giant EDF found guilty of spying on Greenpeace


As the great Mahatma Gandhi (nearly) said, ”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they spy on you, then you win”.

That’s pretty much the chain of events that lead to today’s conviction by a French court of French state electricity company, Electricité de France SA (EDF) for spying on us. The court fined the company 1.5 million Euros and ordered it to pay €500,000 in damages to Greenpeace France. In addition, the court sent the four men involved, two of them senior EDF executives, to jail as well - and fined three of them.

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The men prosecuted were Pascal Durieux, head of EDF’s nuclear safety at EDF in 2006, Pierre-Paul Francois, EDF’s second in command of nuclear safety security during the same period; Thierry Lorho, the boss of Kargus, and Alain Quiros, Kargus computer scientist.

There are a number of lessons to be taken from this scandal, the first being sections of the nuclear industry clearly regard themselves as above the law. Today’s verdict reminds them that this is emphatically not the case. With the terrible consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster still unfolding in Japan the nuclear industry needs to be held to the rule of law like never before.

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1. Court "sent four men involved, two of them senior EDF executives, to jail as well - and fined 3"

Would never happen in America. For such powerful industries and their executives, we are indeed, "The Land of the Free."

But, don't sleep in a park in an Occupy protest, or you'll go to jail.

[Octafish]

2. Justice

Wish the States had more of it, when it comes to corporations and their owners.

Thank you for the heads-up, ensho!

[saras]

3. Justice? That's the world's shortest lawyer joke.

or, in its original form...

wanna hear a one-word lawyer joke?
ok, sure.
justice.