A fine of 100,000 euros was required against the company, which was also warned.
During his requisitions, the prosecutor pointed to "extremely numerous facts which do not result from a simple error but from a global mechanism for the systematic marketing of contaminated meat", motivated by the "seeking of profit".
Lawyer for the civil party, the former ecologist MEP Eva Joly welcomed the requisitions "proportionate to the seriousness of the offenses".
The group based in Châteaubriant (Loire-Atlantique), its CEO Joseph Viol as well as two executives, Michelle Perron and Denis Leclerc, are tried before the criminal court for "deception on the quality of goods", "marketing of products of animal origin harmful to health" and "obstructing" health checks between 2010 and 2013.
On Thursday, the defendants had rejected all of the heads of prevention as a whole, ensuring that no "health risk" had ever been incurred by consumers and blaming "confusions" during the investigation.
"This is a file in which there is nothing. There are no patients, there are no victims, no deception. Nothing at all", hammered the advice of Denis Leclerc, Me Louis -Georges Barret, during his argument.
The judicial investigation had been opened in 2013 following accusations made by a former employee dismissed five years earlier, who claimed that the group practiced at the time the "repackage", recycling spoiled meat from unsold meat. .
"There has never been a repackage. Never, never. We only condemn on facts and facts I have none", continued Me Barret.
The three defense lawyers must plead for release.
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