Environmental and residents' action groups on Tuesday hailed a decision to charge the steel group ArcelorMittal with pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere in south-eastern France and attempting to cover up its tracks.
Campaigners have been battling with the company for nearly a decade over the emissions from the ArcelorMittal plant in the industrial port zone of Fos-sur-Mer some 40km north-west of Marseille.
