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A sign held by demonstrators on Tuesday, October 1, in Rouen, suspects the state to "hide the truth" about the consequences of the fire. LOU BENOIST / AFP

Three ministers are traveling this Friday, October 11, in Rouen in northwestern France. A little more than two weeks after the fire at the Lubrizol plant, Elisabeth Borne, in charge of the Environment, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health and Didier Guillaume, Minister of Agriculture, will unveil the result of new analyzes and launch a committee for "transparency and dialogue".

Several days after the fire at the Lubrizol factory, mistrust vis-à-vis the public authorities is high among the inhabitants of the Rouen region . Simon de Carvalho, a member of a collective created just after the fire and which brings together more than 26,000 people, expects a lot from the meeting with the ministers: " We are already waiting for the State to point the finger at those responsible, There are necessarily leaders in this situation. Our health has been impacted, the management of this crisis was calamitous, now finally we have this list, it's still incredible that we put ten days to have a list of products and to know exactly what we inhaled So they come, I really hope, with a real plan of action, a real awareness. "

" We need more transparency "

" The schools , continues this inhabitant of Rouen, still drink tap water, it is not normal ; precautionary principle: we will look in other sources of water. The analyzes are done every how much? Every hour ? Everyday ? We do not know, we need more transparency, we really need a lot more information, everyone understands what. We can not pass, normally we should be a technological disaster here, it's a company that has spilled its poison in the city, obviously we should be in disaster. But the state has trouble saying it . "

The three ministers present in Rouen this Friday to try to reassure the population will launch a committee for " transparency and dialogue ". The initiative is greeted with caution by the mayor of Rouen , Yvon Robert: " Three ministers, it shows that the government takes this disaster very seriously, we asked, we said that we can not act as if was accident by chance [...]. We want the truth, we want transparency, I mean from that point of view, it's exactly what we want, I think a meeting like this will not be enough. "

Is the disaster really under control?

" And then , continues the elected Rouen, even if today it begins to move away, we are always affected by odors that walk, random odors, which arrive, which disappear, which come back, and so we have the feeling that the catastrophe is not over yet, the accident itself is not over yet, and so here we would like to know what is the state's point of view on this reality, basically is the accident really finished or not? "

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