Agrifood scandal
Search at the headquarters of Nestlé France in the treated waters affair
Investigators invested the premises of Issy-les-Moulineaux following a Foodwatch complaint. The Swiss giant is accused of having illegally treated its mineral waters.
The headquarters of Nestlé France in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, was searched Thursday as part of a judicial information (illustration image).
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The headquarters of Nestlé France in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, was searched Thursday as part of a judicial information opened at the public health center of the Paris court, said the repression of fraud to AFP, confirming information from Radio France.
Two legal information had been opened in February 2025 in Paris, following two complaints from the Foodwatch association targeting the Swiss giant Nestlé and the Alma Sources group concerning the treatment of their mineral waters.
“Searches are underway in France,” confirmed to AFP Nestlé Waterswho said “cooperate fully with the authorities”. The Swiss company is accused of having treated its mineral waters in the past.
Perreish in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Since the start of the scandal, the group has suspended several boreholes, some having been converted to produce flavored water Perrier, less lucrative than the appellation “natural mineral water”.
This “searches operation […] Coordinated on July 10, in particular at the headquarters of Nestlé in Issy-les-Moulineaux “is part of the complaint filed by Foodwatch, with a civil party constitution against X, but” targeting the companies Nestlé and Nestlé Waters “, explained the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF).
In this survey, the DGCCRF National Investigation Service (SNE) and the Central Office to Combat Environmental and Public Health damage (OCLAES) were seized by the two investigating judges. “The investigation will continue to operate in particular the exploitation of the data entered during these searches,” said the DGCCRF.
Nestlé survey
“With this search at the siege of Nestlé, we are delighted that the expertise” of the SNE and OCLAES “brings more elements to the investigation,” reacted Ingrid Kragl, in charge of investigations and information at Foodwatch, in a press release.
The consumer defense NGO believes that “Nestlé Waters, even today, believes itself above the laws by continuing to market its waters in bottles illegally filtered in France and in the world”.
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