This is one of the last traces still visible from the explosion of the AZF factory on September 21, 2001 in Toulouse.
Passing route d'Espagne, wedged between the Garonne, the ring road and the cancer campus, the crater 20 meters in diameter still recalls the place where the 300 tonnes of hangar 221 were stored which exploded, causing the death of 31 people .
Like 1,700 documents, objects or samples, it had been placed under judicial seal since that day, like the two hectares that surround it.
A situation that persisted despite the final conviction of the former managers of the factory in 2017, confirmed by the Court of Cassation two years later.
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A judicial control which prevented the Toulouse metropolis from being able to continue to develop this area.
This led its president, Jean-Luc Moudenc, to directly seize the Keeper of the Seals on this issue.
In return, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Paris Court of Appeal, competent in the matter, has just replied that, following a decision to destroy the seals dated April 8, "a first removal of the seals was carried out at the end of June and that a second operation should take place by the end of September".
It is only at the end of the last operation that the lifting of the judicial seals and the end of the judicial control on the site of the explosion will be definitively validated.
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