Four environmental activists have been attached to the gates of the toxic waste storage site in Wittelsheim for more than 72 hours.
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The four Extinction Rebellion activists are still attached to the gates of the Stocamine toxic waste storage site in Wittelsheim (Haut-Rhin), France Bleu Alsace noted Monday morning.
Activists continue their civil disobedience action in front of the toxic waste storage site. They demand the unconditional cancellation of the work to definitively contain the 42 tonnes of final waste, which must be stored on the site of the former potash mine. They have been tied by the neck with padlocks for more than 72 hours, near the wells.
The keys to the padlocks were sent last Friday to the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, as well as to the prefect of Haut-Rhin Thierry Queffélec.
Risk of pollution
Work began at the beginning of March, after receiving the green light from the Council of State last February. According to environmental activists, this waste risks polluting a significant water table.
Extinction Rebellion estimates from France Bleu Alsace that the authorities “deliberately left the four activists in danger” and sees “a sad metaphor for the situation in Stocamine where the leaders do not act and endanger the lives of seven million humans, as well as the fauna and flora of the Rhine basin”.
