The director of a company suspected of illegally storing more than 150,000 tonnes of waste from various sites in Puget-sur-Argens in the Var was taken into custody on Tuesday April 20, announced the Draguignan prosecutor's office.
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About twenty men from the Gassin Saint-Tropez gendarmerie company intervened to control the site, supported by representatives of the tax service and agents of the prefecture depending on the regional environment department (Dreal), a specified in a press release Patrice Camberou, prosecutor of the Republic of Draguignan. "
At the end of the investigations carried out, about fifteen construction vehicles were seized without dispossession, while the director of the company was placed in custody
", he added. "
This procedure falls within the framework of environmental protection in the Var department and benefits from very particular attention (...)
".
In 2020, eleven people and four companies were indicted in the Var, all suspected of traffic in site excavation that had lasted for several years and revealed by complaints from individuals threatened after receiving rubble, instead of earth. vegetable. About twenty sites have been disfigured, including agricultural and wine-growing properties.
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