Paris (AFP)
Leftist deputies on Saturday demanded a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the fire in Rouen on Thursday of the chemical plant Lubrizol, classified Seveso, while concern remains about the health and environmental impact of the disaster.
"We need the whole truth about #Lubrizol As for #AZF 17 years ago, a commission of parliamentary inquiry should be open next week," pleaded Olivier Faure, number one of the PS, on Twitter. The Socialist deputy of Seine-Maritime Christophe Bouillon is candidate to be rapporteur.
"A decree declaring the state of industrial disaster must be quickly published to allow victims to assert their rights with insurance", also asked the elected of Seine-et-Marne, for whom with "a boss casual, a prefect exceeded, an uncertain government, management of #Lubrizol #Rouen accident is inconsistent ".
Former Socialist Minister of Ecology and elected Deux-Sèvres, Delphine Batho will propose at the beginning of the week to all the deputies to sign his request for commission of inquiry "on the action of the authorities relative to the prevention and the management of the fire (...) as well as its health and environmental consequences ", argued in four pages.
It wishes to be able to carry out investigations on "the warning systems", "the implementation of health monitoring protocols of the population", "the monitoring of technological risks" and "the sanctions applicable in case of failure of companies ".
"We are asking for a parliamentary inquiry and an administrative inquiry!" This site has already experienced several accidents (2013, 2015, 2019), "tweeted LFI MP Eric Coquerel, saying" angry ".
"With budget restrictions, in 15 years, the number of site controls like #Lubrizol has been halved," noted the elected of Seine-Saint-Denis.
According to MP François-Michel Lambert (UDE) also, "we must implement a fact-finding mission". "A fire should not cause this disaster.We will have to move to a new level of Seveso", said this elected Bouches-du-Rhone on BFMTV.
Thursday, a few hours after the fire of this industrial site classified Seveso high threshold producing oil additives, a judicial investigation had been opened the head of "involuntary destruction by the effect of an explosion or a fire". The public prosecutor widened it Saturday to the head of endangerment of others.
The results of air analyzes conducted after the fire show a "usual state of the air quality in Rouen," assured Saturday at a press conference the prefect of Normandy Pierre-André Durand.
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