On the night of the 2nd to 3rd December, 1984, a factory manufacturing pesticides and which belonged to the American Union Carbide group, released 40 tons of methyl isocyanate into the skies over the town of Bhopal, the capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. Breathing in the gas caused the immediate death of over 3,500 inhabitants and several thousand more over the months and years which followed. Around 100,000 people have been affected to various degrees (cancers, blindness, breathing difficulties). The juridical follow-up lasted for over a quarter of a century, from the Indian Supreme Federal Court sentencing Union Carbide to pay 470 million dollars in February 1989, to the sentencing by the Bhopal tribunal, on June 7, 2010, of eight of the business company’s local executives to two years in prison and a fine of 2,100 dollars. The business company’s ex director has for his part never been extradited from the United States and was declared to be ‘on the run’ by the same tribunal.