Twenty years ago, a consignment of dioxin-laced soil from Italy was illegally moved into the French countryside, leading to a dispute between the French and Italian governments. But because the parent company of the agrochemicals company responsible was Swiss, the Swiss government shouldered the moral responsibility and had the soil transported into Switzerland.
二十年前，一批在義大利受到戴奧辛汙染的土壤，非法越境到法國鄉下，造成法義政府間的糾紛，由於造成問題的農藥公司總公司位於瑞士，瑞士政府負起道義責任，將這批土壤運回瑞士境內。