The CGT claimed Thursday two power cuts at Montpellier airport and in a college in Hérault, during a trip by Emmanuel Macron to the department. “In Montpellier”, the CGT Energy demanded “the sobriety of Montpellier airport, a priori before the president arrives”, indicated to AFP Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the National Federation Mines Energy (FNME). ) CGT.
The action took place “shortly before 9 a.m.”, according to Fabrice Coudour, who warned of new actions of this type during the visit of the Head of State. “At 7:00 a.m. we had a cut in the Enedis high voltage line supplying the airport. This cut lasted until 7:30 a.m. but had no consequences because our 5 generators took over,” said the airport spokesperson. “Other than the very brief initial outage, it was invisible to anyone at the airport,” he added.
At midday, it was the turn of the Louise-Michel college in Ganges (Hérault), where President Macron was going, to be targeted by a cut, also claimed by the CGT. The room provided to accommodate the press at the college was deprived of power. “In the continuity of the mobilization of yesterday which follows the President and which carries the anger of the workers, the airport of Montpellier and the college have been put in energy sobriety”, indicated the FNME-CGT, the Syndicat CGT Énergie 34 and the Departmental Union CGT 34, in a message sent to the press.
“We claim the cut in the college. There are no others planned, it is really the college that was targeted, ”added Mathieu Guy, CGT manager of Ganges. Regarding the college, the distribution network manager Enedis confirmed “a voluntary one-hour cut on a public distribution station, near the town of Ganges”, indicating that its technicians “went to the site immediately and resupplied this electrical substation. As always, the company has announced its intention to file a complaint.
The CGT had already claimed on Wednesday a power cut during the president’s trip to a factory in Alsace. During Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Mathis company in Muttersholtz, the factory specializing in wooden construction found itself without power without being plunged into darkness.
“We announced it, energy companies will be everywhere and it will be dark for the president!” Fabrice Coudour had launched in a message. Electricians and gas workers, on the front line in the protest against the pension reform, which they demand that it not be applied, are up against the abolition of their special pension scheme.