At Trafigura Headquarters in Amsterdam

From left to right: Trafigura employee, interpreter, drivers Amado Bakayoko and Doumbia Siaka, Greenpeace campaigner Marietta Harjono, inside the headquarters of Trafigura head office in Amsterdam.
Doumbia Siaka visited Amsterdam for several days together with his colleague Amado Bakayoko, starting September 5th. The Ivorian chauffeurs were hired in 2006 by Trafigura to dispose of toxic waste from the ship Probo Koala in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan. They were two of the nine truck drivers who dumped the waste in many different sites in and around the city. Doumbia and Amado went twice to the Amsterdam headquarters of Trafigura to demand apologies from the company for not disclosing the toxic nature of the waste that they were asked to dispose of. Both times they were told that the management of Trafigura could and would not hear their story.