One year after the fire that ravaged the Seveso-classified Lubrizol factory and the neighboring warehouses of Normandie Logistique in Rouen, the Lubrizol Unitary Collective launched a call for demonstrations on Saturday, September 26.
The meeting is given at 1:30 p.m. in front of the Lubrizol site, before a stroll to the Rouen courthouse and a passage in front of the prefecture.
Gatherings will also be organized in other French cities.
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The event aims to demand better prevention of industrial risks.
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, Paul Poulain, specialist in industrial risks, details the demands: "
[We want] workers' and popular knowledge on work and technological dangers, to prevent the reduction of the regulations which would allow the establishment under conditions unacceptable new industrial sites [...], act for the substitution of hazardous industrial activities that can be replaced immediately, and reduce and monitor those which we cannot do without in the first place
”.
He adds: "
Following Lubrizol, we finally got interested in the subject but Lubrizol is only one of the 1098 incidents that took place in 2019. Lubrizol is a serious incident but among 1098
", while specifying that 'today, “
we are not doing everything to avoid these fires, explosions and pollution.
The sites should be more inspected
”.
This event will mark the final clap of a week of action and mobilization.
As of Monday, the members of this collective posted “
Polluted city, municipality of Lubrizol
”
stickers
on the entrance signs of several cities in the metropolis.
According to
Paris-Normandy
, a public meeting will also be organized on Friday on the quays of Rouen.
