A second EDF executive has asked to become a civil party in the investigation carried out by a judge in Marseille on suspicion of obstacles to the control of nuclear safety inspectors at the Tricastin power plant (Drôme), a-t- we learned Friday from his lawyer.
According to a copy of his application for civil action, "it appears indisputably that the officials of this plant have [in July 2018] done everything to obstruct the inspection work" of this 51-year-old man, then engineer in the EDF internal inspection service since 2015 and who calls himself Victor in the press to remain anonymous.
EDF denies
According to his lawyer Etienne Noël, his civil party application was sent to the judge in Marseilles at the beginning of September.
Neither the Marseille public prosecutor's office nor EDF wished to communicate this information.
In an email to AFP, however, EDF insisted "to oppose a formal denial to the accusations made against it and that of the management of the Tricastin power plant, relating to an alleged policy of concealment of events, general non-compliance procedures and the existence of intimidation towards the independent security sector".
Today on sick leave after several suicide attempts according to his lawyer, Victor also claims in this document to have been the victim of "moral harassment" by a central executive "at the express request of management of the central”.
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