New beaches had to be closed on Tuesday due to the oil pollution affecting the Island of Beauty after the degassing of a boat in the Mediterranean.
The investigation is continuing, three days after the discovery of this pollution offshore.
Where is the pollution at sea?
Oil pollution appeared to be limited on Monday evening.
Air, sea and land resources have been engaged in an attempt to clean up the residues, as the tourist season begins on the Isle of Beauty.
"Microballets, very scattered and increasingly fine were observed by aerial means", indicated Monday evening the captain of frigate Christine Ribbe, spokesperson for the maritime prefecture of the Mediterranean.
Several tons of oil have already been recovered over the weekend, while the largest has moved offshore.
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And on earth?
Monday afternoon, oil pellets were found on the beach of Favone (Corse-du-Sud) requiring its closure by prefectural decree.
"Light arrivals over 300 to 400 linear meters" were observed, the prefecture said Monday evening.
A few kilometers further north, on Solaro beach, on the edge of Solenzara, a seaside resort on the eastern coast, dumplings had also been reported to the authorities as early as Sunday evening.
“It looks like little black stones, nothing very important and imposing.
On the other hand, there were a lot of them on the beach, ”Ange-Toussaint Gambini, head of the Civil Security section of Corte, said on Monday.
The dumplings found on the beach.
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Porto-Vecchio, which attracts thousands of tourists every summer, has also been forced to close several of its beaches, according to BFMTV.
A decree in this direction was taken this Tuesday and concerns the most beautiful beaches of the city, in particular that of Santa Giulia.
The polluted areas were squared and prohibited from access by the gendarmes.
The prefect François Ravier announced Monday a "surveillance of all the beaches, beyond that of Solaro over a linear distance of 30 km", recalling that access to beaches and swimming were prohibited in the municipalities of the south of Haute -Corsica.
Has the investigation progressed?
An investigation was opened by the Marseille prosecutor's office, responsible for maritime pollution cases on the French Mediterranean coast, which assured Monday in a press release that everything was "done to identify the commander and the company responsible for this pollution" .
According to the prosecution, "the screening made it possible to identify a certain number of suspicious vessels and the checks are in progress".
Saturday on Twitter, Gilles Simeoni, president of the Executive Council of Corsica, asked to "severely sanction the authors and responsible" of this pollution.
In the past, several boat captains who carried out savage degassing in the Mediterranean were condemned.
In 2016, the courts fined the Tunisian Navigation Company for 500,000 euros for degassing in the Mediterranean, committed in 2009, by one of its ferries.
In 2008, the Italian captain of a bulk carrier, who carried out a savage degassing south of Toulon in French territorial waters in 2003, was even sentenced to six months in prison.