President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday ordered back an asbestos-laden French warship bound for an Indian scrapyard, just days before a state visit to India overshadowed by an embarrassing legal wrangle over the vessel.
Chirac ordered the retired aircraft carrier Clemenceau back to France pending a final decision on how to dispose of the 27,000-tonne ship.
He also demanded a fresh audit of the amount of deadly asbestos on board after a 30-tonne discrepancy emerged between the amount of asbestos said taken off the Clemenceau and the amount weighed by disposal teams.
"The president has decided to put this ship in French waters, on a position of standby which offers all security guarantees, until a definitive solution for its dismantling is found," Chirac's official Elysee Palace said in a statement.
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