Mouvement International pour les Réparations

On 31 May 2005, the Mouvement International pour les Réparations, based in Martinique, brings a case before the Tribunal de grande instance (Regional Court) in Fort-de-France, which calls on France to recognize the consequences of French enslavement.The case calls for the need to acknowledge the material and immaterial forms of prejudice that continue to be suffered by Martiniquais people as a result of enslavement, and requests the establishment and public financing of an expert commission to evaluate this prejudice.