Published on January 10, 2017 at 00:00
Modified on 10 January 2017 at 06h34
Julien Vaillant
What will become of the 25,500 tons of corn coming from Romania and arrived in the port of Brest last 16 December? Since then, the large quantity of feed (the equivalent of 830 trucks) is still there, regularly ventilated.
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According to the official version, a non-compliant phosphine content was detected during a routine inspection at the port store, carried out a few days after landing. The date of this check? "I do not know precisely," replies Alain Castanier, who is now
anxious to understand why the rates do not decline, whereas phosphine "usually leaves no trace". One of the Brest dockers who carried out the unloading has, no doubt, an initial response. "We quickly realized that there was a significant amount of phosphine. Normally this pesticide is placed in large socks. But there, he had been put in direct contact with corn ". And the docker continued: "Rates are rising fast. It could have been very dangerous if one of us had breathed the gas just above the hold. With this thing, we can leave in a quarter of an hour (*) ".
