“We're going to get on their backs.
This Friday, the mayor of Creil, Jean-Claude Villemain, announced that he was going to file a complaint after his municipal services identified yet another unauthorized deposit at the level of the Aval quay, regularly polluted by unscrupulous companies or private individuals .
This time, it was not rubble or construction equipment but hundreds of boxes of sweets - whose expiration date was about to expire - which were thrown into the river.
The facts were revealed by a Creillois, Fredy, who was on the other side of the river.
“I was walking out of the allotment gardens when I saw the truck starting to dump its garbage into the water.
At first, I screamed to tell him to stop but no one reacted, ”he explains.
So he decides to film the scene and take pictures.
A raised license plate
"I wanted to bring up the information but also help identify the people who did this," says the whistleblower.
It's a place where you see a lot of garbage but it's the first time that I have seen someone getting rid of it in the Oise.
But it is certain that it is not the first to do this kind of thing.
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After learning of the facts, the mayor of Creil went to the docks, in the direction of Montataire, with municipal police officers.
On site, they found paper and cardboard packaging.
But also valuable clues.
"We will try to go to the end"
"We were able to take labels with the name of the manufacturer, the numbers of the batches and the articles," said Jean-Claude Villemain.
And the icing on the cake is that there is a CCTV camera that allowed us to raise the license plate.
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Thus, when the municipal police have drawn up the report and a complaint against X will be filed, everything will be sent to the Senlis prosecutor's office.
"We will try to go to the end", loose the mayor, determined to put an end to the actions of certain people "who think that it is a zone of lawlessness".
According to him, this case should allow "to add water to the mill" of the departmental operational anti-fraud committee (Codaf) dedicated to this environmental crime.
