In expressing his disappointment with the former site of Whirlpool, Emmanuel Macron "takes us for cons a second time," denounced Friday François Ruffin, deputy LFI of the Somme, who urged the president to recognize that the state had "shit", the recovery project ended in failure.
In 2017, five months after his election, President Macron visited the factory with a buyer, WN, largely helped by the state, which was to save some of the jobs. Two years later, WN is liquidated. "Come two years ago to tell all the employees that they will be taken back while behind there is nothing, it is to take us for idiots and come and say that today Emmanuel Macron, as s' he was a lambda citizen (...) is disappointed, it is we take for cons a second time, "said Frabçois Ruffin reporters arriving on the parking lot of the plant, shortly before the meeting of the President with the former employees. "I told the truth to Whirlpool," hammered the head of state, a few minutes before returning to the scene of his most emblematic campaign trip.
"Admit that you have screwed up"
During the visit to the site, the deputy of the Somme again strongly called Emmanuel Macron: "I think you would grow the state to admit that you have crap, at the limit not you personally, but while here nothing only happened, that it was the disaster, that everyone could see that it was going in the wall, there were signals sent outside and we did not get an answer ". "This famous recovery, I have the impression that it was a montage between the current government, between you, Mr. Macron, and Whirlpool and a rogue buyer named Decayeux (former boss of WN, ed), added Patrice Sinoquet, CFDT delegate ex-Whirlpool.
"He has to find the words to explain to the employees how it is that he came to slap them on the shoulder and that there was no follow-up behind them, and that they were allowed to go right in the wall ", said before this visit François Ruffin. "There are a lot of things that need explanations and I hope they will not happen behind closed doors [...] I hope everyone will be invited to a nice walk inside. 'Warehouses that are empty! It's a desert inside!' According to the member, there were many warning signs. "The 190 employees made Eiffel towers with spaghetti to take care of (...) The unions alerted, I alerted, and we had no response from the Elysee, the Ministry of Labor", a- he regretted.