Placoplatre gypsum quarry in Seine-Saint-Denis partly collapses. The prefect suspends the construction site.
The company announces landfill work in Coubron, near the quarry. The collapse of part of this quarry on the weekend of February 10 is a reminder of the risks inherent to this underground construction site, writes Agnes Poirier-Lecomte. In a decree dated February 12, the prefect, Jacques Witkowski, ordered "immediately, as a preventive measure, the suspension of the exploitation of a zone with a radius of 100 meters around of the fontis area”