Eric (64) is the fifth in his family to get cancer, but after 22 years he finally wins a lawsuit: “Eternit made a deliberate mistake in asbestos production”

“Intentional misconduct, systematic manipulations and deliberate distortion of facts.” The Brussels court is not kind to cement manufacturer Eternit, which has been found guilty of an intentional error in the years of production of asbestos and causing lung cancer in Eric Jonckheere (64). The sixty-year-old is himself chairman of Abeva, the association of asbestos victims. What does this mean for the victims and the company?

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