Six days after the fire at the Lubrizol plant in Rouen, anxiety is not wavering. 5.253 tons of chemicals were destroyed announced yesterday the prefecture. It is now a matter of assessing their dangerousness. For local residents, the daily is turned upside down.
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But some did not wait for the results of the analyzes: they decided to leave. This is the case of Laetitia. She left Rouen on Thursday, when she saw the black cloud of smoke. With her husband and children, she fled to a friend's home in the Dieppe region. "I will go home when the expertise of my environment, that is to say my city, my house, the surroundings, will be made reliably," says the mother.
"Tomorrow an expert goes to my house to take the air, the earth and the water on the walls, the sofa, our clothes and our cat, possibly It is not possible that there is no asbestos in the air, no lead rested in our homes, we are told that everything is fine, that the water is good, that the air is not at all coherent, I am planning to move and to educate children elsewhere. "
"Staying here was unthinkable"
4,000 residents demonstrated on Tuesday to demand more transparency. David, a resident, felt bad on Friday morning. He went to sleep somewhere else with his family. "We left with not even toothbrush!" We took the baby's blanket and that's all. Staying on the spot was unthinkable. "
"Friday morning we both woke up with a spectacular migraine," says David. "We can not blame it for anything other than Lubrizol, we only apply the precautionary principle to our scale."
David remains worried: "The prefect was not at all reassuring at first, and now they are only trying to reassure the same people that they initially worried".
"We are going to aim day by day, the big question is: when will my daughter be able to go back to school?" "At worst, she will miss a second week of school, but in doubt I prefer away, "he concludes.