Fuel pumps, taken by storm for several days but very often exhausted, will be able to resume service at a normal pace.

In any case, this is Olivier Véran's promise, repeating to anyone who wanted to listen that there would be a "very significant improvement in the coming days" in fuel reserves at service stations, at the end of the Council ministers.

“Then, for a full return to normal to happen, it will take several days,” he added.

The origin of this exit from the crisis?

Requisitions of strikers ordered by the government.

"From the moment you unlock, you start running the drop-off centers again, this will have several consequences: first of all, trucks will be able to leave the drop-off centers again and resume their normal routes to supply the service stations, so there you have a visible effect which is rapid, ”detailed the government spokesperson.

“We act with tact and moderation”

In a second step, “as you will be able to empty some of the stock in the depot centers, you will be able to allow the refineries to start operating normally again, since they will be able to store their fuel again in the depot centers”.

While the strike was renewed in six of the seven refineries in France, the government ordered Wednesday morning the requisition of the personnel essential to the operation of the ExxonMobil depot in Port-Jérôme in Seine-Maritime.



"We act with tact and moderation in the matter, that is to say that we act when social dialogue is not respected or when it was impossible", assured Olivier Véran.

As such, he criticized the CGT which, according to him, "still refuses to comply with these basic rules of social dialogue", while a majority agreement was found at Exxon.

Olivier Véran finally recalled that other requisitions could take place at the Flandres depot center, of TotalEnergies, near Dunkirk "if the blockage were to continue".

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