00:00 Glyphosate, a herbicide very effective in getting rid of weeds. It was put on the market in 1974. At the time, we did not suspect its health effects.
00:12 Canada should have died.
00:16 They said it was the first 100% biodegradable weed. That's why we chose it.
00:23 The European Union has just renewed its authorization for 10 years.
00:26 Why is there so much debate and so much stake in this pesticide, which is the most widely used in the world?
00:31 That's what I'm telling you in "Witness".
00:33 The World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a probable cancer for humans in 2015.
00:46 We came here to Quiberon to meet Ludovic.
00:49 Ludovic is 52 years old. He was a landscaper.
00:52 Glyphosate literally destroyed his life.
00:56 I am Ludovic Mauger. I was a landscaper.
01:02 I was affected by a cancer that I caught with pesticides while working.
01:10 My children, my son, I taught him to swim on this beach.
01:19 These are memories that come back.
01:25 It's moving.
01:27 Since 2020, Ludovic's life has become a daily battle.
01:36 He spent 6 months in intensive care and had to undergo 12 successive chemotherapies.
01:43 My disease was very difficult to find.
01:48 It is a very rare lymphoma.
01:51 I had medical malpractice for 6 or 7 months.
01:56 How did you work at the time? How did you work with glyphosate?
02:02 20 years ago, we found it everywhere.
02:10 There was no disinfectant like we need now.
02:14 We worked with a sprayer on our back, even with a t-shirt underneath.
02:22 We did it manually, without a mask, without gloves, without anything at all.
02:27 Roundup, Gallop, Clipper and others, these herbicides based on glyphosate,
02:33 are at the time considered harmless, on the pretext of some precautionary measures.
02:42 Herbs are so powerful, they attack the pulverizers' seal.
02:47 So, automatically, it creates leaks.
02:50 In fact, we often have a soaked back.
02:54 When I fell ill, I didn't really connect with glyphosate.
03:01 Until a certain point, of course,
03:04 when blood tests showed that I had the poisoned blood of glyphosate.
03:09 My compensation was very derisory.
03:12 Monsanto paid me 300 euros per month for my compensation for my illness.
03:19 I still lost my mind.
03:21 I was at a moment when I didn't recognize my wife, my children.
03:26 It's moving. It's very hard.
03:30 Not so strong.
03:32 Today, Ludovic no longer has the strength to pursue Monsanto.
03:36 However, many lawsuits have been won around the world
03:39 against the German firm Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018.
03:43 We have an appointment with Maître Laforgue.
03:50 He's a lawyer specialized in these issues.
03:52 He was the first to be able to link the pathology of his clients
03:55 and the use of herbicides or pesticides.
03:58 He won the first lawsuit against Monsanto.
04:01 We are facing a real pesticide lobby
04:04 to try to hide the danger of pesticides
04:08 so that they can continue to be used by agricultural operators and their employees.
04:13 This lobby intervenes at all levels.
04:15 It first intervenes at the European level
04:18 when the active substances are approved.
04:21 The studies that have been taken into account
04:24 for this approval renewal are very important.
04:27 And above all, the studies that should have been taken into account
04:31 to show the danger of this active substance
04:34 have been ruled out for bad reasons by the European authorities.
04:40 We contacted Bayer and the pro-pesticide lobbies.
04:44 None of them gave us an interview.
04:46 Two-thirds of European citizens claim the total ban on pesticides such as glyphosate
04:51 according to a report by the European Institute for the Prevention of Pesticide Abuse.
04:55 Like these NGOs and hundreds of citizens who are being heard in the street.
04:59 This is the case of Joao, a researcher in agribusiness.
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