Europe 1 with AFP 15:16 pm, March 24, 2023

The CFDT indicates this Friday that three employees of the TotalEnergies refinery of Donges in Loire-Atlantique have been requisitioned to ensure the supply of fuel. These employees had been on strike since March 7 against the pension reform. Other requisitions took place in the Normandy refinery.

Three employees of the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges in Loire-Atlantique, on strike since March 7 against the pension reform, were requisitioned Friday, according to the CFDT. "Three employees are requisitioned to send fuel by pipeline to Vern-sur-Seiche", a fuel depot near Rennes, for the quarter of the afternoon, told AFP the union delegate CFDT Adrien Vaugrenard.

Four requisitions at the Normandy refinery

A hundred people escorted the three requisitioned employees to the refinery compound singing "We are here", noted an AFP journalist. Asked by AFP, the Ministry of Energy Transition did not react immediately. The first requisitions of oil workers since the beginning of strikes against the pension reform were announced Tuesday at the Fos-sur-Mer depot in the Bouches-du-Rhône near Marseille.

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Early Friday morning, four employees of the TotalEnergies de Normandie refinery in Gonfreville-L'Orcher, were also ordered to ship kerosene to Paris airports, where stocks were critical. For the time being, few petrol stations are experiencing real fuel shortages, with the exception of the south-east of the country, which is much more impacted.