The French press echoes the report issued by the Research Center for Energy and Clean Air, a Finnish institution that for the first time quantifies the fatalities attributable to the manipulation discovered in 2015, a case that has generated prison sentences and million-dollar fines.

It has been a decade since the scandal broke out in the United States, when it was revealed that a software existed to put on the market vehicles, about 200 models, which emitted many times more harmful substances, such as nitrogen dioxide, than those allowed to preserve human health.

According to the investigation, Dieselgate in France will cause another 8,000 premature deaths between 2024 and 2040, a figure which at the European level, would amount to more than 200,000 deaths during that period.

Respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and even cancer would be the consequences of inhaling pollutants.

The Finnish center’s study denounces the human and economic impact of diesel engine tampering in order to put cars on sale with their real hidden pollutant value.

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