On 21 September 2001, the AZF plant in Toulouse exploded. The accident resulted in the death of thirty-one people, two thousand five hundred wounded and heavy property damage.
Report in Toulouse on the occasion of the AZF trial with the testimonies of victims. Alternation on commmentaire of factual images of the surroundings of the court and of the interview of Annabelle LE DOUSSAL and her daughter Lucie LE DOUSSAL, whose father and husband was killed in the explosion. For Annabelle LE DOUSSAL, her husband, who is responsible for the environment at AZF, was aware of the dangers and had warned her. She calls to stop following the trail of the attack. Sandrine CAROL, another victim of the explosion, testifies to the attitudes towards the wounded, between those too shocked to react and those who helped.
Report. Update on the investigation conducted in Toulouse to try to establish the responsibilities in the case of the explosion of the AZF factory, which hit the city on 21 September 2001. Commentary on images of the factory and infographic panels, alternating with interviews with Georges PAILLAS, AZF workshop manager and Michel BREARD, prosecutor of the Republic of Toulouse.
Report on the conviction on appeal of the former director of the AZF factory, whose explosion killed 31 people 11 years ago, and of the Grande Paroisse company. Commentary on illustrative images alternating with interviews with complainants, who underline their satisfaction at seeing the culprits designated, the lawyer of the association "families bereaved", and the lawyer of the group Grande Paroisse, which denounces an empty file and an extreme sanction.
A report gathering the testimony of people affected by the explosion of the AZF plant in Toulouse five years ago. Habib SAADAOUI-CHATTI spent six hours buried under the rubble of a building. Julien SAUPIQUE, employee of a company that was destroyed, talks about the traces left by the disaster. And Michel LASSERRE, of an association of merchants, deplores that if tertiary enterprises were built in the neighborhood, the local shops did not reappear.
Two years after the explosion of the AZF factory in Toulouse, reconstructions have advanced but a disaster is still waiting for its housing to be restored. Philippe DOUSTE BLAZY, the mayor of Toulouse, points out that all the communal buildings have been rebuilt and evokes what should make it possible to avoid this kind of disaster in the future and the device planned to help the victims who still need it.
Scientific explanation to understand what ammonium nitrate is and the conditions under which it is likely to explode. Interview with Professor Robert ROSSET, from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique Chimie in Paris, in his laboratory. Images of two ammomnium nitrate explosions illustrate his point. In 1947, a French cargo ship exploded in the port of Kansas-city, killing 600 people. Then, the same year, the port of Brest explodes destroying half of the city.
Report in Toulouse on the explosion of the AZF chemical plant. Update on material damage and relief. The factory is devastated, the expressway stopped, dozens of wounded are pampered in the streets of the city. Interview with the deputy director of the AZF chemical plant and a witness of the explosion very shocked.