The Paris commercial court must look into the rescue plan for the distributor in difficulty on Monday. Some 6,000 jobs would be threatened by the sale operations of the group's stores.

According to the inter-union, voluntary departure plans have been promised by the buyers Daniel Kretinsky and Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière. The court granted the request of the CSEC (Central Social Economic Committee) to postpone the debates for a week, to try to remedy as much as possible the absence of a “social component” in the safeguard plan.