In Marseille, the demonstration against the planned pension reform was canceled, and many demonstrators went to the square in front of the Gardanne coal-fired power station, learned 20 Minutes from the Bouches-du-Rhône police prefecture.
At midday, they were nearly 700 demonstrators in front of the central according to the police prefecture, and between 3,000 and 4,000 according to the CGT. This demonstration comes at a time when the Gardanne coal-fired power station is threatened with closure, in accordance with an electoral promise by Emmanuel Macron to put an end to these too polluting activities due to its CO2 emissions. The site is therefore the subject of a strike movement in progress since December 2018.
A union representative in police custody
However, this Wednesday, a CGT union representative of the central was placed in police custody for "death threats" to the management of the site, while another employee on strike was summoned for a prior interview before dismissal, according to concordant sources.
"Management is still targeting employees on our side," said Nadir Hadjali, CGT general secretary of the site, who accused the police forces mobilized on the spot of having wanted to "search" the local CGT of the company at the time of this interview. prior.
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