The steel group appeared on 000 November for pollution that appeared on March 8 and 12 August 1343, the first due to a coking plant cleaning operation, the second following heavy rains. The public prosecutor’s office who had requested a fine of 170. euros, criticized ArcelorMittal for having been slow to comply with the standards of the Environmental Code, claiming that the company was aware of the risk.
Before the judges, as in a press release sent to journalists before the hearing, ArcelorMittal pleaded relax it. The company argued that it was part of a process of continuous improvement on environmental issues.
A judgment with “an example value”
At the origin of the complaints against the giant world of steel, in particular for “spillage of harmful substances in water”, in this case of hydrocarbons, the mayor LR of