"I have no a priori intention to close the Maubeuge factory. I assure you, I never said it and I never even thought of it," assured the president of the group Jean- Dominique Sénard on Sunday, when several thousand people demonstrated at the start of this site on Saturday after the announcement of a savings plan. 

The president of the Renault group, Jean-Dominique Sénard, assured Sunday that he had "no intention" to close the site of the automaker of Maubeuge (North), where several thousands of people demonstrated Saturday against the plan of savings announced by the group.

"I have no a priori intention to close the Maubeuge factory. I assure you, I never said it and I never even thought of it elsewhere", as part of the savings plan of more than 2 billion euros announced by the group this week, said Jean-Dominique Sénard during the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI.

>> More info to follow