Mondelez group wants to gradually close the Belin-Lu factory in Château-Thierry by 2025. Elected officials and employees are today stunned and angry with the multinational.

“We don’t understand,” tirelessly repeats David Romedenne, CFDT staff representative and trade unionist. Production would cost on average “ twice as much as at other sites in the rest of Europe ”, with no prospect of improvement, Mondelez says.