AZF est le principal exemple en France de la responsabilité ... La sous-traitance dans ces usines à haut risque a été au coeur de ces procès car l’explosion a eu lieu dans la zone de gestion des ...

The explosion came 15 days after the trial ended in the case of the September 2001 Total AZF factory explosion in Toulouse that killed 31 and injured 2,500. Two accidents at Total since the ...

On Friday, September 21 at 10:18 a.m. the French town of Toulouse was rocked by a devastating chemical explosion. Two production halls of the AZF fertiliser factory, a subsidiary of AtoFina and ...

Victims' associations have always held Grande Paroisse- the AZF operating company and subsidiary of the French energy giant Total - responsible for the explosion. There has been long-standing ...

A French court on Tuesday found a subsidiary of oil giant Total partly responsible for a huge explosion at a fertiliser factory in the city of Toulouse in 2001 that claimed 31 lives. Grande ...

So far no cause has been identified for the blast at the AZF factory, which killed 29 people, injured at least 2 500 and caused extensive damage in Toulouse. Rumours of the cause of the explosion, ...

The Toulouse court dismissed charges of manslaughter against the Total subsidiary Grande Paroisse and the AZF plant director, Serge Biechlin. It cited "reasonable doubt", saying there was no proof the ...

The AZF affair has seen two huge trials involving 3,000 plaintiffs and 50 lawyers. In 2012, the Toulouse appeals court ruled the explosion was caused by the accidental mixing of two chemical ...

The deadly blast in 2001 was caused by more than 300 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar at the AZF chemical complex. The explosion, five kilometres from the centre of Toulouse ...

More than 30 people died and thousands were injured on 21 September 2001 in a blast at the Toulouse chemical company AZF. The explosion was one of Europe's worst industrial accidents. The cancer ...

TOULOUSE, June 24 (Reuters) - French prosecutors recommended oil company Total and former head Thierry Desmarest should not be sentenced over an explosion in 2001 at its AZF plant in Toulouse ...