The president of the Moruroa e Tatou nuclear test veterans association, Roland Oldham, says his comment about last week's French Polynesian labour court ruling regarding compensation claims was only a question he was raising aloud.
This comes after the court's president, Guy Ripoll, warned that Mr Oldham's claim of there being a racist bias exceeds what can be said in criticising a judicial decision.
The court threw out the compensation claims.
But Mr Oldham says it is a reality that the French labour regulation is different from the one in French Polynesia.
"I am asking myself, and with me, all the Polynesian is asking themselves, isn't this justice racist? That is the question. And it is up to us all to make up our own opinion."
Roland Oldham,
