Bordeaux station was deprived of electricity on Tuesday. katatonia / stock.adobe.com
As part of the mobilization against the pension reform, demonstrators cut off the power supply in the Bordeaux station district for around two hours.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
After the occupation of the rails, it is now the electricity network that has been targeted at Bordeaux station. A power outage 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 Énergie demanded from AFP the “energy sobriety of the Saint-Jean station, as well as part of the district“as part of a”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 “Caused embarrassment“. “We will strongly condemn these actions which go against our public service missions and we will file a complaint with the competent authorities.said an RTE spokeswoman.
The strikers in the sector have multiplied power cuts since the start of the conflict, 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.