Let us recall that at the time of catastrophe known as AZF at Toulouse, on September 21, 2001, the factory of the SNPE - separated from its “neighbor”, property of Total Large-Parish, by the width of the Garonne - had to face important after-effects financial. The lawsuit of the catastrophe which has ravaged the Rose City from now on is planned as for him in February 2009. ( Finance Information City )
If justice and associations of victims seem in a hurry to point finger the oil group with the mega benefit - which are proven quite useful right now to finance the compensations - all does not seem as limpid as it does not appear to with it on the file. In any event that it that is to say the truth - if it appears one day - it seems increasingly probable that the State will seek to minimize as much as making any possible responsibility little, for - in particular - not being seen constrained to draw from already empty cases.
The law aims at “allowing the transfer to the private sector of company SNPE, its credits and its subsidiary company SNPE Energy Materials (EMS)”. The State is shareholder of this company, created in 1971, to a total value of 99,972%.
The military bill of programming registers “the SNPE in the list of the companies being able to be privatized” because “it is time to work with the reorganization and to the reorganization of this absolutely strategic company in a certain number of fields”, explained the Minister for Defense Herve Morin at the time of a press conference.
“I did not say that the SNPE was privatisait, I said that one set up the elements allowing to organize the reorganization of the SNPE”, it however specified, being pleased with this evolution, whereas “that made 15 years” that the file is evoked.
“We engaged of the discussions with a certain number of French industrialists who will allow to preserve the industrial tools, competences and know-how which we need”, it added.
The bill makes also possible “the installation of a specific action to the capital of the SNPE” or subsidiary companies concerned, “in the event of need for the protection of the national interests”.
Disocurs extremely interesting when it is known that on September 1, 2001, is three weeks BEFORE the catastrophe of the chemical pole of Toulouse known as catastrophe AZF, the site neighbor of the factory Large-Parish - which had fallen recently into the bosom from Total - had been placed in Vigipirate reinforced, taking into account the strategic activities of the site.
Mid-October 2008, the daily newspaper the Echoes affirmed that the French State prepared with privatiser this company in order to allow its bringing together with French Safran. According to the newspaper, a decree should organize the passage of the activities of propulsion of the SNPE, SNPE Energy Materials (EMS), under the crook of the motor mechanic Snecma Propulsion Solid (SPS), subsidiary of Safran.
If these two entities approached, France would imitate the American model where the two national solid propellant suppliers, ATK and Aerojet, are at the same time propergolists (manufacturers of fuel for the missiles and the rockets) and motor mechanics.
SNPE, which employs 4.300 people is a French industry group “of foreground in the chemistry of energy materials present in the middle of many defense systems and civilians, in particular in the solid propulsion of the strategic, tactical missiles and of the space launchers”, according to its dires. The group is also present in fine chemistry, the chemical specialities and occupies a place of leader on the market of the commercial blasting explosives.
Following the explosion of AZF in Toulouse which would have only slightly damaged close factory SNPE, the latter was nevertheless considering prohibiting to manufacture again product of fine chemistry toxic such phosgene, which represented two thirds of its Toulouse activity.
As of the 24/10/2001, the Report/ratio of the General inspection of the environment concerning “the accident of September 21, 2001” - which then had one month an imperative time to provide its conclusions - mentions that the SNPE “underwent notable damage in its general installations” and that “one must regret of the victims, of which a death, in its personnel”. “However, no technical installation was damaged, no escape did not occur”, adds the report/ratio.
If one reads the document in detail, even between the lines, one notes on several occasions that the writers of the file propose the very short times preventing to them providing the conclusions of the expertises and from questioning all the people necessary… but the conclusion, it, like is asked well there and who more is, officially asked, letter with the support united in appendix.
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