The pill does not pass.
The coup de Jarnac from the board of directors of Suez, which made the group's activities in water in France unassignable thanks to the creation of a foundation under Dutch law, caused a real explosion.
On BFM Business, the CEO of Veolia, Antoine Frérot, did not have enough harsh words to qualify this arrangement.
A
"dirty trick"
, a
"last maneuver a little pitiful desertion",
he attacked, still determined to carry out his project of bringing the two groups together.
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At Engie, a 32% shareholder of Suez, the response took place in the morning.
Its boss, Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, met the president of Suez, Philippe Varin, in a tense atmosphere.
The first gave the second a letter in which he asked for the convening of an extraordinary general meeting in the very short term to examine
"this baroque and opaque mechanism, and be able to measure its legal consequences"
.
On the side of the public authorities too, the maneuver was very unhappy.
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