The fanfare plays The International ; A steelmaker in silver clothes, hood and protective holding against molten metal projections, brandishes a smoke; The procession starts behind two banners “in danger, Dunkirk resists”,, “Metal metal”. The demonstration of the May 1, Thursday, had a particular coloring Thursday morning in Dunkirk (North), a week after the announcement by ArcelorMittal France of a deletion plan of 636 posts which particularly affects the site of the Port City, one of the largest European haggles in Europe, where 295 positions are threatened.
The CGT delegate of the site, Gaëtan Lecocq, had called for a “Exceptional mobilization”. More than a thousand people responded to his call-three times more than usual according to regulars who had never seen so many political leaders, including the three candidates for the post of first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, Boris Vallaud and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the national secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, the deputies Aurélie found (LFI) or Benjamin Lucas ( Social), the European deputy Majdouline Sbaï (Ecologist) but also the mayor of Dunkirk, Patrice Vergriete. So many signs that the case takes a symbolic turn and a national dimension.
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