They appeared on Friday January 20 before the Bobigny Criminal Court for having, in February 2022, deflated the tires and stolen the license plates of thirty-nine vehicles parked in the parking lot of the Enedis site, manager of the electricity distribution network. of La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the context of a dispute over salary increases.
Five CGT activists, including four Enedis employees, were sentenced on Friday January 27 to a suspended fine of 150 euros for the degradation, reclassified as “light” of vehicles, and 500 euros in suspended fine for entering the site and stealing the plates ” in meeting “.
A more lenient sentence than that required at the hearing, a two-month suspended prison sentence. A certain relief thus greeted the announcement of the judgment on Friday. “The judges have perfectly retained the demanding nature of a fight for a salary increase. Even if there is condemnation at the end, it is extremely light with regard to the assembly of the initial file that the directions had planned “welcomed the CGT 93 in a press release on social networks.
A “symbolic” action
The five men, aged 25 to 39, all technicians, elected to the social and economic committee (CSE) or union officials, had in fact acknowledged the facts at the hearing while explaining that this was a stock “symbolic” in a context where they did not feel heard by their management. “When we do everything in the rules, we see no return on our claims”, one of them pointed out.
“This decision is proof that when we can explain to a court the reality of what employees are going through, we are listened to”, welcomed, Friday, their lawyer, Me Jerome Borzakian. Which had detailed at length at the hearing the discomfort of these employees faced with the feeling of disappearance of the spirit of public service in the energy sector.