REPORTAGE
Édouard Philippe made the trip to Rouen Monday with a message to hammer: yes, the smells caused by the fire of the plant Lubrizol, last Thursday, are "troublesome", but no, it is "not harmful". Present at the factory site, the Prime Minister also reaffirmed his desire for "absolute transparency" on the causes and consequences of the accident. But these government outings do not really reassure the population. At the time when Edouard Philippe was in the news, more than 500 people tried to invest the hangar H20 where the prefect of Seine-Maritime held a meeting to answer the questions of elected officials of the Metropolis.
"We've been under the smoke, we know it sucks"
"We want the truth, we want the truth", chanted the demonstrators, according to images that turn on social networks since Monday night. Their goal: to talk to the prefect to finally have clear information on the quality of the air. "We have information but that are the same as the first day, that is to say that the population will risk nothing, that everything is fine in the best of worlds," denounces Marine, interviewed by Europe 1. "Except that we are not our world, so we do not believe at all what they say, we have breathed what escaped from Lubrizol, we have been under the smoke, we know that it sucks. "
The same thing happened with Olivier, accompanied by his four-year-old son, who left without the answers he had come looking for. "I do not really trust what they tell us," says the young parent, who wears, like his little boy, a surgical mask since last Thursday. "It is better to be protected than to breathe an air whose consequences we do not know."
"We have symptoms, often itchy eyes, scratchy throat, we cough ..."
For Amandine, the government necessarily minimizes the scope of the fire. "We know that without a factory is classified Seveso, it's not for nothing.We know it's serious, we can have potential dangers," says the student. "There are people who have found soot in their faucet, we have symptoms, often itchy eyes, throat scratching, we cough.I know for a fact that it is due to that. at one time or another, there will be repercussions, of course. "
And the inhabitants of Rouen do not intend to release the pressure to obtain information. Several unions, associations and NGOs are calling for demonstrations Tuesday in front of the courthouse.