Despite the intervention of a few first dump trucks, under police protection, garbage continued to accumulate on Tuesday in several districts of Marseille, on the 13th day of a strike movement by some of the garbage collectors which could now be played out on the judicial field.
A few hours after taking its requisition order, the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters deployed several CRS vans on Monday evening, in order to secure the site of the Polyceo company, a Derichebourg subsidiary in charge of collection of garbage in the 2nd, 15th and 16th arrondissements of the city.
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The employees concerned have not complied with the requisition
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But it will not stop there, because it is an offense punishable by six months in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros, and it will now go before the prosecutor
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No truck left the site and 100% of employees are still on strike Tuesday,
" assured AFP Lionel Martini, FO delegate within the company.
Faced with this requisition order, the Force Ouvrière union also decided to take legal action, with an appeal for interim relief filed on Monday.
This request will be examined Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. by the administrative court of Marseille.
According to the strikers, the requisition would be illegal, the employees belonging to a private company, even if the latter exercises a public service mission.
Rare dump trucks began Tuesday morning to pick up the waste accumulated for nearly two weeks in the Panier, old historic district in the heart of the city, as well as in the 15th and 16th arrondissements, working-class neighborhoods north of the Marseille city. .
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But these trucks came from other sites, with personnel from other companies, and they worked under the protection of the police, we told the police headquarters, "
determined to play its role in favor of security and public health for the citizens
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