What is this “organic pollution”, according to the expression of the prefecture, which caused the death by asphyxiation of thousands of fish observed on October 26 in the Loing canal, between Souppes and Nemours? If the judicial investigation opened by the Fontainebleau public prosecutor's office does not yet reveal it, we learned this Friday that samples confirm the presence of sucrose. “In a quantity which is not what we expect in canal water,” confirms Sébastien Lime, the secretary general of the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne. “But to say where he comes from and how he got there, it’s up to the judicial investigation to demonstrate,” he adds. He won't say more.
Sucrose, this sugar widely used for human food, being extracted in particular from sugar beets, many think of the sugar factory located upstream since 1873, on the left bank of the Loing canal in Souppes-sur-Loing. Was there an accidental leak? When contacted, factory management could not be reached. No more than the public prosecutor of Fontainebleau.
