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After the occupation of the rails, it is now the electricity network that has been targeted at Bordeaux station.
A power cut caused by demonstrators against the pension reform deprived the SNCF station of electricity on Tuesday as well as 22,000 homes in the city center, AFP learned from the SNCF and the network manager RTE.
At midday, the demonstrators occupied a local RTE, interrupting the supply of the station and the surrounding district, said the SNCF.
Tracks and train traffic were not affected.
The CGT Energy demanded from AFP the “
energy sobriety of the Saint-Jean station, as well as part of the district
” within the framework of an “
interprofessional action
”.
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A complaint filed by RTE
The outage lasted about two hours before a gradual restoration of power.
At 1:20 p.m., all homes were resupplied, said RTE, which apologized to users for the "
inconvenience caused
".
"
We will strongly condemn these actions which go against our public service missions and we will file a complaint with the competent authorities
," said a spokeswoman for RTE.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the strikers in the sector have multiplied power cuts, against parliamentary offices up to that of the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher - or the homes of political leaders, but also on a larger scale.
Recently, 43,000 homes were temporarily without power in the Var or 32,000 in the Ardennes.
On March 23, on the sidelines of a day of national mobilization, a power outage had already affected up to 8,000 customers in downtown Bordeaux, according to the electricity distributor Enedis.
