Agents are, in particular, prosecuted for acts of “computer sabotage”. The CGT Mines-Energie denounced the use of anti-terrorist services to silence the wage demands of agents.
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Near a hundred RTE agents, this EDF subsidiary which manages the electricity transport network in France, gathered Thursday, October 6, in front of the operator’s headquarters, in defense Near Paris, to protest against placement in police custody of four of their colleagues in the premises of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI). “The anti -terrorist services are used to silence the wage demands of the agents,” denounced a press release from the Federation Mines Energy of the CGT.
Aged from 31 to 35 years old, these agents, stationed at the Network Maintenance Group (GMR) in Flanders Hainaut, in Valenciennes (North), were arrested at their home on Tuesday, October 4. “Menottés, and qualified in front of their families as cybercriminals in an organized gang,” says the CGT. They have since heard in the premises of the DGSI in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine).
From a judicial source, they are accused of the facts “of obstacle to an automated data processing system”, “computer sabotage”, “introduction”, “modification” and “fraudulent deletion of data contained in an automated data processing system “. All in organized gang. Their police custody can be extended up to 96 hours, four days. So until Saturday 8 October in the morning.
“We make cybercriminals believe! It is a complete delirium!”, Indigates Francis Casanova, central union delegate CGT, Ahuri, like all these colleagues in the turn of events.
RTE complaint
The investigation was opened on July 29 following a complaint from RTE. The operator did not wish to speak publicly but did it in an internal press release from which Le Monde obtained a copy. The management of RTE evokes “serious acts” carried out “three times and concomitantly on the industrial tool” between June and July. Actions that would have led to the loss of “two essential functions for the exploitation of the network: observability, that is to say the ability to see remotely (…) what is happening on the network; maneuverability, that is to say the ability to act on these equipment “for actions planned or in reaction to vagaries. In short, potential risks.
“We blame them for the passage of the posts, for having cut the TV driving. As if we were confiscated the remote control of the TV, that does not prevent him from walking, but if you want to change channels you Must move around, “deciphers Jean-Louis Maury, of the CGT RTE, who puts these facts in the context of the important social movement that the operator experienced in the first half, for wage increases.
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