AUTOMOTIVE – Nearly a million vehicles sold in recent years in France were equipped with software to deceive pollution controls. Partly confirming the announced figures, that’s what said Wednesday, September 30 AFP the French subsidiary of Volkswagen. In all, 948,064 vehicles are affected in France, said Volkswagen France.
In detail, it is 574,259 Volkswagen brand models and 189,322 for Audi, Skoda 66,572 and 93,388 SEAT plus 24,523 Volkswagen commercial vehicles, according to the count of the German car manufacturer.
The association “Ecology Without Borders” announced the same day that it would lodge a complaint “for endangering and aggravated deception the lives of others “in this case. “We bring a complaint against X for aggravated deception and endangering the lives of others,” said the association in a statement. The complaint will be filed with the Paris prosecutor.
Several lawsuits triggered
Volkswagen scandal acknowledging having equipped worldwide 11 million vehicles of several of its brands of software to invalidate the results of emission tests. Ecology Without Borders believes that there is not that motorists are cheated by this cheating.
The group “misled the purchasers” and, putting on the market of vehicles which emit particles exceeding the expected standards, also “affected populations directly exposed to immediate risk of death or serious illness,” writes Ecology Without Borders. WHO has classified diesel exhaust as carcinogenic some in 2012.
Several lawsuits have already been initiated in other countries. A class action was launched in the US against the German group and, in Spain, an anti-corruption association complained. A criminal investigation was also opened in Germany against Martin Winterkorn, the former head of the group who resigned after the scandal
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