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Was it the asbestos that allegedly killed 22 people, or was it the asbestos removal effort - against Claude's advice - that did so? Given that he objected in 19
by glenra 15y ago
Was it the asbestos that allegedly killed 22 people, or was it the asbestos removal effort - against Claude's advice - that did so? Given that he objected in 1996 and the article claiming some number of deaths and injury was written in 2007, the timing works with either interpretation...
- ceejayoz 15y agoWikipedia has a picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jussieu_d%C3%A9samient%C3%A9.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jussieu_d%C3%A9samient%C3%...) of the facility during asbestos removal. Given that they've taken out everything but the metal frame of the building, I doubt many students were going to class in the building as they removed it.
- glenra 15y agoWhere did you get the information that the alleged deaths/sicknesses were of students rather than, say, construction workers?
- ceejayoz 15y agoCommon sense? The dangers of asbestos were well known in 1997 (hence its removal!), it's a developed nation that enforces protective measures for workers, etc. Losing 22 workers in France in the 1990s/2000s on a single asbestos removal project is extremely unlikely.
- glenra 15y ago...and losing 22 students due to asbestos in a single building isn't unlikely, according to your common sense?
- ceejayoz 15y agoSince 1959 in an entire campus, not one building. There'd be many, many more students passing through over five decades than there would be construction workers in a 10 year cleanup effort.