Prime Minister Édouard Philippe assured Sunday that "the commitment of the government is to answer all questions and make the total transparency" after the fire on Thursday of Lubrizol chemical plant in Rouen. "To face the legitimate anxiety of the populations, there is only one solution: the seriousness and the complete and total transparency", he added during a transfer to the summer university MoDem in Morbihan, while critics accusing the authorities of a lack of transparency have multiplied in recent days.
"Let all be known"
The prefecture of Seine-Maritime published Saturday evening on its website results of analysis related to the risks of pollution caused by the fire occurred Thursday. Regarding air quality, "the results on volatile organic compounds are all below the threshold of quantification (too small a quantity to be measured) and show a usual state of the air quality at the sanitary level", with the exception of the Lubrizol site (presence of benzene), indicate the state services in the department.
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The Prime Minister pledged to "work as intensively as possible with all stakeholders, local and national, to find solutions and give guarantees to resolve the situation." "We wanted to make sure that all that is known, that all the analyzes that are made are made public," said Édouard Philippe.
A commission of inquiry soon put in place?
Since the spectacular fire of the plant, classified Seveso threshold high, inhabitants of the agglomeration of Rouen, political parties, trade unions or associations of defense of the environment asked for more transparency on the consequences of the accident, qualified Saturday "major disaster" by the prefect Pierre-Henri Durand.
Leftist deputies on Saturday called for a parliamentary inquiry into the fire. "It's been an extremely traumatic event and I understand perfectly, including as a mother, what it means when you get up in the morning that you have this detestable smell that invades your nostrils, that you ask yourself questions because your children are pushing and so it's very scary, "said Sunday on France Inter government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye, also promising" transparency ".