Hugo *, the former executive who alerted to the malfunctions at the Tricastin power plant, now says “wait for the sequel”. The Marseille public prosecutor’s office recently opened a judicial investigation against X, in particular for non-declaration of an incident or accident within the plant. France Bleu Drôme Ardèche was able to join him, he knows that the investigation will be long but hopes that the outcome will lead to establishing responsibilities.
“What I want is for justice to shed light on the events concealed or minimized by EDF and for it to determine everyone’s responsibilities.says Hugo. Not only from the Tricastin plant, nor from EDF, but also from the Nuclear Safety Authority. I communicated to them very early, from 2018, elements: SMS, reports, emails, requests for falsification given by management by SMS. These are extremely serious matters which, in my opinion, leave no room for ambiguity. But after that, there are still incidents, floods and contamination”.
The opening of this judicial information is recognition according to Hugo. The old frame has been fighting for years: “I was pressured to shut up when I was in office. I hope there will be an awareness because there is such a situation of extremely serious cover-ups. It’s not me The deliberate nature of the violation of the environmental code with regard to the spill, the forgery and use of forgery, the endangerment of others with immediate risk of death are indeed additional qualifications or complements put at the end of the first instructions of the file by the Marseille public prosecutor’s office”.
*Name has been changed