According to the Radio France investigation cell and the world, the Nestlé group would have managed to convince Matignon and the Élysée to bypass the law in order to be able to illegally treat its contaminated waters.
A year ago, almost today, The world and the investigation cell of Radio France revealed that several manufacturers, including Nestlé, had used prohibited purification systems for years. The water they drew was indeed contaminated. For Nestlé Waters, the World Division for Beamped Water from the Nestlé group, its Gard sites, where Perrier water is pumped, and Vosges, from which hepar, countex and Vittel waters are fired, are affected.
The use of microfiltration, UV filters or active coals is pointed out. And for good reason, as Radio France recalls in its survey, French regulations are very strict: natural mineral waters (Perrier, Vittel, Evian) and source waters (crystaline), supposed to be protected in theory of the risk of contamination and Pollution because pumped in underground tablecloths, can only very weakly be treated. Exit therefore UV or coal filters.
A “secret agreement”
A year after these revelations, Radio France And The world persist and sign by declaring this Tuesday, February 4, that the Nestlé group would have managed to convince the French State to bypass the law. However, the alleged facts date back to the 2020s, when Emmanuel Macron already occupied the Palais de l’Elysée. Ministerial notes, emails, report of inspection visits … Multiple documents allow the two media today to prove the existence of what Radio France does not hesitate to qualify “secret understanding”.
Faced with a large lobbying operation, during which the group would not have failed to threaten to remove many jobs in France, Nestlé would have managed to obtain authorization to use, still today, filters not filters Compliant. A request that the Ministry of Health and the Directorate General of Health had however described as “not acceptable” to Matignon.
While Radio France cites only notes addressed to “collaborators” of the President of the Republic or the meeting of the “right arm of Emmanuel Macron, Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Élysée”, with the leaders of Nestlé, without Take a direct exchange between the head of state and Nestlé, the main interested party defended himself from all collusion with the group. “I am not aware of these things. There is no agreement with anyone, there is no connivance with anyone,” assured Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, on the sidelines A trip to the Gustave-Roussy Institute.