No Armistice for War Remnants
The abandoned ammunition on French ground by the last three wars’ soldiers is industrial waste with no place to go. The waste was subjected to unforeseen discoveries, to disorganized storage, to centers of destruction located very far from centers of “production”, and to unexpected transfers — it is therefore why one recovers bombs in garbage dumps, grenades in potato sacks originating from the north of France, and shrapnel in a marine sandlot delivered to an equestrian center. The law of silence applies to these objects and substances. It is impossible to know the state of chemical ex-ammunition stocks, and at the same time, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are quasi-abandoned in plain view, like at the Mars-de-Tour (54), in contradiction with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their Destruction, (CWC). These abandonments expose the environment and public security to risks of pollution, theft, and blackmail. The construction, and even the location of a destruction factory for this type of ammunition, is always deferred. After abandoned military sites are transferred to civil use, they are not subject to surface and subsurface decontamination 50 cm deep, leaving to the instigators the responsibility of underground decontamination.
