The attached public Public Aurélien Rousseau, former director of Cabinet of Elisabeth, born in Matignon and former minister, recognized on Tuesday “an error of appreciation” in the case of the natural mineral waters treated, however, remember that “there was no health scandal.”
“When we return and when we see the situation today, it is better to be clear and admit, yes, an error of appreciation,” said Elisabeth Borne’s collaborator in France between May 2022 and July 2023, before becoming Minister of Health until December of the same year.
The issue of illicit treatments used for certain mineral waters, revealed by the press in early 2024, was subject to “concealment by the State” of a deliberate strategy “, accused on Monday of the Senatorial Research Commission on the practices of bottled water manufacturers in its report.
“I, when they seize me as the director of the cabinet, tell me (that) in 2021, Nestlé came to see the state and said:” We apply treatments in the water that we know are illegal, they leave us time, “said Aurélien Rousseau on Tuesday.
“Nestlé should not have the right to the name of mineral water”
“What is certain is that in 2025, Nestlé has not yet entered the nails, so he should not be entitled to this name of mineral water,” he added.
But, he clarified, “yes, in 2022, Nestlé has come to see the authorities and (knowing) that there was no health risk, we had decided to say:” Ah, well, it is over, you are no longer mineral water, “I think Nestlé would probably have said as they say today:” We will close these sources. “
Today, he said, Nestlé must “be responsible, even before the courts, in terms of commercial deception.”
More severe, the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel was outraged with the “interference” of the government “with the manufacturers involved directly with the Elysée.” “It’s scandalous, justice must take it,” he said in RTL.
Source: BFM TV
