REPORTAGE
The announcement should officially fall on Friday: 7,500 jobs cut at Air France within two years, including 1,025 cuts for the regional subsidiary Hop, particularly affected. In Morlaix, there is therefore concern: the Finistère maintenance and training site should be the most concerned with 276 jobs cut, more than a quarter, in a city already highly affected, where the aeronautical industry has been flourishing.
"It was our baby"
800 people worked on the Morlaix site 7 years ago: the Maintenance Center should be purely and simply wiped off the map by 2023: 276 job cuts, a cataclysm in a city of 15,000 inhabitants whose rate of unemployment exceeds 20%!
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"We are angry, it was our baby. We had participated in creating this company ..." laments Europe 1 Benoît, 33 years old. "It is really a disaster. Here, there are people who work in family, the husband and the wife, too young to be retired, too old to find something else. And then here in the aeronautical sector, there There is nothing, forced to leave. People are collapsed, morally it is not easy to live, we do our mourning work between us, we are going to lose something big, a family. It is a heartbreak. "
The mayor of Morlaix requests an appointment from Édouard Philippe
What makes him the most angry, he says, is that "it is not consistent! If we lend money it is to save, not to kill." After the coronavirus crisis, Air France indeed received from the French State, shareholder of Air France-KLM, financial support of 7 billion euros, including 4 billion guaranteed bank loans and 3 billion direct loan.
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"We will not let it happen!" Proclaims the new socialist mayor of Morlaix who asks the Prime Minister for an express meeting and calls for the mobilization of all the Breton elected representatives to save the platform.