The harbor harbor dock worker was abducted and killed on June 12. - Maxime Le Pihif / SIPA

About 2,700 people participated Saturday afternoon in a white march in Le Havre in tribute to the docker kidnapped and killed on June 12 in Montivilliers (Seine-Maritime), we learned from the prefecture and the police. This demonstration takes place "in peace", indicated to AFP the prefecture of Seine-Maritime.

At #Havre, an impressive procession heads towards the city center, a rally in homage to the dock worker whose body was found on Friday June 12, 2020, in a school in Montivilliers. @ 76actu pic.twitter.com/uxHsgnOmxp

- Bouchard Murielle (@ mubouchard14) June 20, 2020

The white march brought together many families, CGT activists, including a hundred unionists from the ports of Marseille, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lorient and Rouen, said an AFP correspondent. At the head of the procession, a large banner was deployed: "unbearable." The loss of our colossus Allan with a heart of gold. An exemplary dad, a man loved by all. "

Call for a 24 hour work stoppage

The Racing club port of Le Havre, in which the docker killed was involved, also expressed his emotion. "The president, the leaders as well as all the players join the family's grief at this painful time", can be read on the rugby club's Facebook site. In a press release, the National Federation of ports and docks of the CGT had also expressed "its emotion" faced with this "assassination in odious and cowardly circumstances". "Never again should such acts be repeated against a dock worker, a port worker, a militant worker of the CGT," the statement added. The national federation of ports and docks had also called for a 24-hour work stoppage in all of France's ports, starting at 6 a.m. on Saturday.

Thursday, judicial information, "including the head of arrest, kidnapping, forcible confinement or arbitrary detention followed by death in an organized gang", was opened, the prosecutor's office of the Interregional Specialized Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Lille, in charge of folder. The victim had been indicted in July 2018 for association of criminals with a view to the preparation of crimes or misdemeanors, "in connection with the trafficking of narcotic drugs raging in the port area," said the prosecution. The dock worker had been left free under judicial supervision. The facts date from 2017 and the case is still under investigation.

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