The judgment of the Bobigny Criminal Court, Friday, January 27, is more lenient than the prosecutor’s requisitions at the hearing, a week earlier.
by Aline Leclerc
They had appeared on Friday January 20 before the Bobigny criminal court for having, in February 2022, deflated the tires and stole the registration plates of thirty-nine vehicles parked in the parking lot of the Enedis site, manager of the distribution network electricity, Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis) as part of a conflict for salary increases.
Five CGT activists, including four Enedis employees, were sentenced on Friday January 27 to a sentence of 150 euros suspended sentence for degradation, reclassified as a “light” vehicle, and 500 Euros of a suspended fine for having entered the site and having stolen the “meeting” plates.
A clearer sentence than that required at the hearing, two months suspended prison sentence. A certain relief thus welcomed the announcement of the judgment on Friday. “The judges have perfectly retained the demanding nature inscribed in a struggle for the increase in wages. Even if there is conviction at the end, it is extremely light with regard to the assembly of the initial file that the directions had provided”, s ‘is congratulated 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 permanent, had indeed recognized the facts at the hearing while explaining that it was there of a “symbolic” action in a context where they did not feel heard by their management. “When we do everything in the rules, we do not see any return on our demands,” said one of them.
“This decision is proof that when one can explain to a court the reality of what the employees are going through we are listened to”, welcomed their lawyer on Friday, M e Jérôme Borzakian. Which had long detailed at the hearing the discomfort of these employees in the face of the feeling of disappearance of the spirit of public service, in the energy sector.