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Hull 790 aka aircraft carrier Le Clemenceau, once a symbol of France's naval might, arrived at the military seaport of Brest on Wednesday after failing to find a foreign country willing to dismantle its asbestos-contaminated hull.
The carrier returned to Brest after a 18,000 km voyage around Africa, back from India, months after an environmental row over the warship.
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France called the warship back home after India's Supreme Court barred it from entering the country's territorial waters over pollution fears.
The French government said it contained 45 tonnes of asbestos while the firm, which helped in its initial decontamination, said it had 500 to 1,000 tonnes.
Image: Decommissioned French aircraft carrier Le Clemenceau at the military seaport of Brest.
Photograph: Fred Tanneau/AFP/Getty Images
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