The government, which accuses Leclerc to go abroad to abuse its suppliers, claims the group a fine of 117.3 million euros.

Leclerc will seize the Court of Justice of the European Union to challenge the fines required against him by the government, announced Monday the group in a statement.

By criticizing the Leclerc centers for having joined forces with other European distributors to give consumers cheaper prices, the French public authorities are violating European legislation which aims to encourage such exchanges and encourage these partnerships. ", says the distribution giant. And to denounce "the relentlessness of the French public authorities",

The attitude of the public authorities is "all the more discriminatory", adds Leclerc, "that several times in recent months, the French authorities have supported reconciliations in the fields of telephony, multimedia, transport, telecommunications and telecommunications. automotive, equipment, shipbuilding, banking and insurance ".