In Aveyron, a fire in a storage warehouse destroys 900 tonnes of lithium batteries. Residents surrounding the scene within a 500 meter radius have been confined to their homes since Saturday evening.
Smoke, stagnating around the site due to lack of wind, continues to escape, "giving off a strong odor", the prefecture told AFP. Environmental defense association Adeba judges on its Facebook page “what happened is very serious” “We have high hopes for the investigation that will follow. We will not be satisfied with reassuring press releases,” the group says.