THE QUESTION.
Guy Hascoët feels he has been let down. Former deputy, the boss of La Coop des Masques (Côtes-d'Armor) this week launched a cry of alarm, explaining to several media that he was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. The protective masks manufactured by his company, created at the start of 2021 to respond to Emmanuel Macron's call at the start of the Covid-19 crisis, are no longer finding buyers. Today she finds herself with nearly 4 million surgical masks and FFP2 on her arms. According to the entrepreneur, it is even the entire French mask industry that is threatened in the near future.
“No lesson has been learned. If that does not change, in six months, everything [the sector, editor's note] is clear, ”
he told BFM Business on Tuesday.
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On March 31, 2020, however, Emmanuel Macron addressed the French from a mask factory in Maine-et-Loire, encouraging manufacturers to "produce more in France, on our soil".
“
To produce because this crisis teaches us that on certain goods, certain products, certain materials, the strategic character imposes to have a European sovereignty.
Produce more on national soil to reduce our dependence and therefore equip ourselves in the long term
”, declared the President of the Republic.
Are these statements likely to remain a dead letter after the pandemic, as Guy Hascoët asserts?
CHECKS.
According to figures from the Union of French Mask Manufacturers (F2M), since the summer of 2020, 97.5% of
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