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Damage to the electricity network: four RTE employees in police custody at the DGSI

2022-10-05T12:20:38.490Z


In June, power cuts affected tens of thousands of homes in northern and western France due to the strike of


Four employees of RTE (Electricity Transmission Network) have been in custody since Tuesday in the premises of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) following major damage to the network.

The fact that the employees are heard in the premises of the DGSI is explained by the status of RTE, an operator of vital importance for the functioning of the country.

RTE filed a complaint this summer following these damages.

The alleged facts are of common law, specified the source close to the file.

In June, power cuts affected tens of thousands of homes in northern and western France due to strikes by energy workers.

In Angers, for example, 175,000 households had been affected.

The prosecution had very quickly announced the opening of a police investigation for endangering the lives of others and undermining the freedom to work.

She had been entrusted to the Departmental Security of the Angers police station.

“It will be re-evaluated according to the consequences which could be identified”, then indicated Éric Bouillard, the public prosecutor of Angers.

“In custody like the worst terrorists for nothing!

»

In the morning, the CGT issued a press release to denounce “anti-terrorist services used to silence the salary demands of agents”.

The union says that these four employees, based in the North, are suspected of having "programmed the passage of electrical substations locally".

"It is, continued the CGT, a symbolic action of taking over the work tool, frequent during strikes, which has no impact on the continuity of the power supply, nor even on the safety of people and people”.

"These are lambda employees, four maintenance technicians from the North region", declared to AFP Francis Casanova, CGT central union representative for RTE, according to whom, for a "symbolic action", they "find themselves on guard. seen for 96 hours as the worst terrorists for nothing!

".

" That's crazy !

he exclaimed.

Mr. Casanova sees in it “a desire to repress the social movement”, recalling that there have been actions for several months at RTE for wage increases, without the strikers winning their case.

A rally at the initiative of the CGT is scheduled for Thursday at 2 p.m. in front of the RTE headquarters in the La Défense district, in the inner suburbs of Paris.

Source: leparis

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