#2026-555France Creates Reparations Framework for Réunion Minors Sent to Mainland France
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The law creates a formal remembrance and compensation framework for people who were minors when they were moved from La Réunion to mainland France between 1962 and 1984. It sets up a national commission to oversee historical recognition, reconciliation work, school and research coverage, and the creation of a memorial site in Creuse. It also establishes a national day of tribute on 18 February and allows eligible former minors, or their descendants if they have died, to seek a fixed compensation payment from a state fund. That payment is excluded from income tax and certain social security contributions.
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Key Changes
- Creates a 15-member commission on the memory of former Réunion minors moved to mainland France
- Establishes 18 February as a national day of tribute
- Creates access to a fixed state compensation payment for eligible former minors or their descendants, with tax and social contribution exemptions
Obligations
What this law requires
Create and operate a commission for the memory of former minors from La Réunion transplanted to mainland France between 1962 and 1984.
Ensure the commission monitors implementation of the recommendations from the temporary information and historical research commission report on the displacement of Réunion children to mainland France.
Ensure the commission oversees a reconciliation policy involving former transplanted minors or their descendants, associations, territorial authorities, and the State.
Give the transplantation of minors from La Réunion to mainland France between 1962 and 1984 an appropriate place in school curricula, social-work state-diploma training programs, and history and humanities research programs.
Create a memorial site in the Creuse department with cultural, educational, and research purposes.