The regional direction of Vinci Autoroutes in Narbonne, burned in the night from 1 to 2 December during a demonstration of "yellow vests", will have to be "demolished and rebuilt", and this rehabilitation will take a year, said Raphael Martin, Operations Manager Mediterranean.
Thirty degraded vehicles. The regional management, as well as the toll, was "sacked, looted and destroyed by the flames in the night of December 1 to 2," he lamented, adding that Vinci had filed a complaint for damage. The 160 employees, "deprived of their working tools", were redeployed on the districts of Sète, Carcassonne and Rivesaltes. Thirty vehicles (patrol vans, trucks equipped with salt spreaders, brines and snow plows) were degraded or burned, he added.
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A building of 800 square meters. The 800-square-meter building included the security PC, which monitors the network, provides information to customers and supervises emergency call stations. These functions have been switched to the Orange Security PC, while the current period, marked by exchanger blockages or even motorway cuts, "requires a lot of information to be sent, with operating measures to implement in connection with the prefectures, on international axes, such as A7 and A9 ", he said.
Damage amounted to "several hundred thousand euros". A judicial inquiry, entrusted to the gendarmerie of Narbonne, is in progress. The damage, during appraisal, will amount to "several hundred thousand euros". The site also housed a gendarmerie highway platoon. If Raphael Martin condemns "extreme acts of violence and rampage, inadmissible", he does not "think that Vinci Autoroutes is a target". Other sites operated by Vinci Autoroutes however suffered damage, such as those of Virsac in Gironde and La Ciotat in Bouches-du-Rhône.