While social plans crumble over the days in a leaden silence, history will remember that the
"economic and social storm"
announced by Édouard Philippe may have risen in Béthune.
The upcoming shutdown of the Bridgestone tire plant takes on a particular emotional charge: it hits a highly symbolic site in the north of France, a region which has already paid a heavy price for deindustrialisation.
In the midst of Covid, it creates a shock that is all the more understandable as the Japanese group has visibly put no form or considered any other outcome than an outright closure.
Wind up against Bridgestone, threatened with a thousand reprisals, the unanimous political class would gain much by coldly analyzing the affair.
She would see that this economic catastrophe owes nothing to the health crisis, but is part of the long process of disintegration of our industry.
For a long time now, Chinese tires, which flood and destabilize
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