Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for a follow-up to the CGT's call for a boycott of Vertbaudet. Tensions have been high in recent weeks around this strike movement.

The strikers at the Marquette-lez-Lille warehouse were repeatedly evicted from their picket line by the police. The Lille prosecutor's office opened an investigation after violence reported by the local CGT union against a union delegate, who was allegedly beaten by people posing as "plainclothes policemen"