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Gwendal Gossec works in Rouen, and lives about 20 kilometers from the Lubrizol factory, where a fire broke out last week, causing various chemicals to be released into the atmosphere. It is to understand what were these products, precisely, that Gwendal Gossec posted a petition on Change.org, which is now approaching 100,000 signatures. And he has, on this point, won the case: the prefecture has posted online Tuesday evening the list of components used by the plant. But this is not enough. Asked Wednesday on Europe 1, Gwendal Gossec believes that it is only the beginning of a "long investigation".
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"It's not over yet, I did not think this petition was so big, but the goal is now to get a health survey, an environmental survey, it's nice to have the list of products." we want to know what is the nature of the smell that people have felt.What people have breathed, touched, cleaned? ", he wondered.
"We wonder what we breathe and in what universe we live"
Gwendal Gossec still has no confidence in the authorities' speech, which ensures that air pollution does not reach critical levels in Rouen. For the author of the petition, the authorities are simply not looking for the right kind of pollution. "Until then, we had air tests on the usual pollutants, but if you do not look for traces of what burned, you will say that the air is clean. petition: look for the real pollutants ".
Today, this father still tries to maintain a normal daily life and not to panic: he goes to work, sends his son to school. But "I'm not reassured by the smell that continues to drag in the city," he says. "These products, we are told that we can clean them, and at the same time we are told that when they touch vegetables, do not consume them," he points. "At the entrance to the workplace, we saw puddles that dried up with deposits of yellow," he says again, before concluding: "We wonder what we breathe and in what universe we live in ".