If it was really bad, do you think they'd be saying so?
No. It's French government. Hide First. Think After.
(In 1987 they said that the Nuclear Cloud coming from Tchernobyl had stoped at the frontier with Germany... so that the State had not to pay for medical treatment of Cancer to public servants).
Pierre Pellerin ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Pellerin ) won a trial against media that were saying this children story about him saying a Nuclear cloud stopped at the frontier.