"The city is clearly polluted," minister Agnes Buzyn (pictured below) said after visiting the scene, adding: "I cannot guarantee that there is no danger. Schools were closed, he said, for thorough cleanups of the black soot that had descended on the playgrounds and courtyards. The Lubrizol plant sits just a few kilometres from the centre of Rouen, a city of some 100,000 people. Lubrizol France chief executive Frederic Henry, speaking after the health minister's visit, expressed consternation at the blaze. And in 2015, 2,000 litres of mineral oil used in lubricants leaked from the Lubrizol site into the local sewer system.

Source: The Local September 27, 2019 19:52 UTC