Sartre as prosecutor of occupational murder: notes from a People's Tribunal in a French mine (1970)

On February 4, 1970, in the Fouquières-lès-Lens coal mine northern France, sixteen miners were killed a gas explosion (“firedamp,” grisou French). This was an accident like many others before it, yet with relatively high number of fatalities. The public prosecutor concluded, as usual, that there no case against publicly owned mine. No investigation to be carried out. had been work fate, bad luck.