Faced with fuel shortages which are beginning to become worrying in certain territories, the government proceeded on Friday to new requisitions of agents in the oil sector.
They concern the TotalEnergies refineries in Normandy in Gonfreville-l'Orcher (Seine-Maritime) and Donges (Loire-Atlantique), on strike since March 7.
The requisitions at the Normandy refinery were confirmed early this Friday morning by Agnès Pannier-Runacher on RMC.
“
The pumping
has restarted” declared the Minister for Energy Transition.
These requisitions "
aim at the resupply of petroleum products, in particular aviation fuel for the airports of Paris
", specified to AFP Olivier Gantois, president of Ufip, professional union of petroleum companies.
Kerosene stocks at Paris airports were indeed beginning to be critical.
In Gonfreville, three employees were requisitioned, said the cabinet of Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
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The requisition extended to Fos-sur-Mer
In Donges, three employees were also requisitioned this Friday afternoon, according to the CFDT.
"
Three employees are requisitioned to send fuel by pipeline to Vern-sur-Seiche
", a fuel depot near Rennes, for the afternoon shift, CFDT union representative Adrien Vaugrenard told AFP.
The three requisitioned employees were escorted by a hundred strikers into the refinery, who sang "
We are here
", noted an AFP journalist.
Requested by
Le Figaro
, the Ministry of Energy Transition has not yet confirmed these requisitions or reacted.
This is the third oil site where requisitions have been launched since the start of the mobilization against the pension reform.
The first decisions of this type had been announced on Tuesday morning for the Fos-sur-Mer fuel depot, near Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), to deal at that time with the supply problems encountered by the service stations in the south-east of France.
This act of requisition was extended Wednesday for 48 hours.
