Animal experimentation: the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University persist in their lack of transparency
For years, One Voice has been fighting to lift the veil on the fate of primates used for research purposes in France. But behind the walls of the laboratories, silence and opacity remain the rule. Faced with this refusal to be transparent, we have taken legal action.
On June 12, the Marseille Administrative Court ruled in our favor, ordering the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University (AMU) to provide us with documents relating to the primates held in their facilities. Some of these primates come from the Rousset breeding facility.
However, despite this court ruling, the CNRS and AMU continue to withhold certain documents, in particular inspection reports (carried out by State agencies to monitor the conditions in which animals are kept and experimented on), and to systematically conceal other essential information, such as the causes of death of the monkeys.
This concealment prevents the complete traceability of the animals used and directly contravenes the transparency obligations to which these institutions are subject.
Our fight continues and we will not give up! We have once again taken the matter to the administrative court to ensure that this concealment is lifted and that the court ruling is fully enforced.
The hearing is scheduled for November 3.