On the sidelines of his trip to Toulouse, Jean Castex spoke to the AZF memorial
Through Lucie Fraissé
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The absence of members of the Government during the ceremonies commemorating the 20 years of the explosion of‘AZF in Toulouse, Tuesday September 21, 2021, had annoyed more than one and hadcé the beginning of controversy.
“To come to Toulouse, there is no one there! “
Several associations of victims regretted this absence. To pay Toulouse news, Pauline Miranda-president of the Association des Sinistrés du 21 September explained: “AZF is nevertheless the biggest industrial disaster in post-war France. For the 20th anniversary of September 11 in New York, France sent representatives, but to come to Toulousee, there was nobody! “
On social networks, many Toulouse residents were also moved by the absence of government representatives during these ceremonies. Have they been heard? No one knows, but this Saturday, September 25, 2021, on the sidelines of a trip to the Tarn and Toulouse, the Prime Minister Jean Castex went to the AZF memorial for a moment of meditation.
A sequence without the press, but still unveiled …
A sequence in all discretion, “off the press and off camera”, that the entourage of the Prime Minister still saw fit to to leak. Jean Castex was accompanied by Clement Beaune, the Secretary of State for European Affairs andEtienne Guyot, Prefect of the Occitanie region.
Four days after the official ceremonies, they laid a wreath of flowers at the foot of the AZF memorial.
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