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This Wednesday, October 2, more than one hundred mayors and elected officials of Seine-Maritime have questioned the Prime Minister in a letter. In it, they ask him " to engage the government and the State " to respond to " fears, anxieties and questions " born from the fire factory Lubrizol.
" The Lubrizol disaster is not a local incident. It is a technological disaster, economic and ecological national scale , which must be treated as such, "write a hundred mayors and elected officials of Rouen and Seine-Maritime in this mail dated Wednesday, October 2. " Transparency " information , establishment of a " medical monitoring record, short but also long-term of people who have inhaled fumes ", " recognition of the state of technological disaster " and " rapid damage repair caused to the environment ": elected officials ask Édouard Philippe to commit the government and the state" on four concrete points ".
" Quick response "
Among the signatories are Yvon Robert, socialist mayor and president of the city of Rouen, Rouen municipal councilors, mayors and elected officials of the departmental council of Seine-Maritime, and socialist Senator Nelly Tocqueville. " Before the fears, anxieties and legitimate questions of our fellow citizens, we must collectively provide a quick, clear, useful and effective response, " write these elected officials. They emphasize that transparency " must not only target the exact nature of what has burned, but also the composition of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere, soils, their quantity, their dangerousness ".
They also demand that a medical follow-up register " be immediately put in place " for those exposed, " starting with the public service agents and employees of Lubrizol directly engaged in extinguishing the fire, the inhabitants closer and more widely all the local residents concerned ". Regarding the recognition of technological disaster " there is urgency ", say the Norman representatives, and " the immediate compensation of farmers of the 112 communes impacted " by the ban on harvesting and collection of milk, but also traders, " must to be put in place .
Remember the AZF disaster in Toulouse
" We can not wait 20 years, " they write about damage repair. Recalling the case of the AZF disaster in Toulouse in 2001 whose " criminal proceedings are still ongoing, " they ask Mr. Philippe to order the prefect " to exercise right now his prerogatives administrative police environment ". Tuesday, October 1, the prefect of Normandy unveiled the list of products destroyed last Thursday in the fire. The authorities have published 479 sheets with the characteristics of these substances and the "associated risks" in case of combustion.
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A green information number
The government sets up this October 2 from 15:00 (Paris time) a toll free number to answer questions about the consequences of the fire of Lubrizol chemical plant in Rouen. The number 0800 009 785 is available 7 days a week from 8 am to 8 pm until the end of the crisis.
( with AFP )