The commercial court of Evry has retained Friday "none of the offers of recovery" of the airline Aigle Azur placed in bankruptcy, whose activity will end this Friday at midnight, announced the president of the court Sonia Arrouas in a statement.
"No durable solution has been proposed by the buyers," says the president, deploring "the withdrawal or absence of concrete offers, the lack of financial means credible candidates", "indeterminacy of the source of funds "or" the inadmissibility of certain proposals ". "This decision is difficult because everything was done to save employees," still regrets the president of the Commercial Court.
"The liquidation would be a huge waste", according to the unions
Aigle Azur employs some 1,150 people, including 800 in France and 350 in Algeria. The company, whose 11 aircraft have not flown since September 7, had been placed in liquidation on September 16 with continued activity until Friday.
Earlier Friday, representatives of several unions (CFDT, SPL, CFTC, SNPL) had called in a statement the state to grant a "relay loan of about 35 million euros to save" the company, which accuses a " liabilities of 148 million euros ". "The close liquidation of Aigle Azur would be a huge waste," they argued, referring to the example of the German company Condor, a subsidiary of British tour operator Thomas Cook, who got Tuesday a bridge loan guaranteed by the German state of 380 million euros, allowing it to continue to fly.
Two takeover offers were studied
Two offers of recovery were studied by the Commercial Court of Evry for several days, one from two former leaders of Air France, Lionel Guerin and Philippe Micouleau, conditioned to obtain a 15 million equity loan. the other presented by Lu Azur, minority shareholder of Aigle Azur up to 19%.
But when "Lu Azur, at the request of the court, came to provide evidence of the existence and location of the 30 million euros of funds for the recovery of Aigle Azur, Gerard Houa found that he There was nobody in the courtroom at the Commercial Court of Evry "this Friday morning, said a spokesman for Lu Azur, the president of the court retorting Gerard Houa" has not found a closed door. "