US EditionWild Discharges in the Vosges: Continuation of Nestlé's Trial, without Additional Expertise
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After a two-day suspension, the hearing of the agri-food giant for illegal storage of toxic waste will continue as planned until Friday, decided Tuesday the Nancy correctional court, refusing to order further pollution analyses. For its part, "Mediapart" reveals this Wednesday that the group hid elements from the court.
While Nestlé has appeared before the Nancy Correctional Court since 23 March for abandoning illegal plastic dumps, "Mediapart" has had access to analysis results and a confidential note from the multinational which contradicts the statements of its officials to the investigators.
The president of the Nancy court has decided. Nestlé Waters' trial on the illegal storage of plastic waste in the Vosges will continue this week. A setback for the prosecution and the civil parties. They hoped to return and find themselves with few contradictory elements.
“There is no contamination of any kind,” Christophe Michaud, one of Nestlé’s four lawyers before the Nancy Correctional Court (Meurthe-et-Moselle), said again, denouncing “a strange environment, in which a suspicious poison is breathed everywhere” towards his client. The multinational has been brought to justice since March 23 for having abandoned and stored between 2016 and 2024, and “hiddenly and covertly”, tons of waste, that is, 470,000 cubi…
"We have nothing to hide," insisted a Nestlé representative on Wednesday morning, on the third day of the multinational's trial in Nancy for illegal dumping near its water bottling sites in the Vosges.
"Omerta" facing a real "public health question", or situation under control? At Nestlé's trial for wild dumps around its water plants in the Vosges, the debates revolved around Wednesday's...
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