Tour de France: “They will be able to bring all the companies of CRS of France so that the 3rd stage takes place …” The CGT threatens the test

Thursday 01st May 2025 05:36 PM

essential
To put pressure so that the metallurgy company ArcelorMittal does not dismiss 302 employees as it provides, the CGT Nord threatens to prevent the holding of the third stage of the Tour de France.

Threat to the Tour de France? The 3rd stage of the large loop may not be held. An ultra-rare fact and when it is the case, it is the vast majority of time for meteorological cause. This time, it could well be for political reasons.

Read also:
VIDEO. Tadej Pogacar: “Caisse Recorduse in madness!” The mad sum (already) won by the triple winner of the Tour de France this season

Jean-Paul Delescaut, the secretary general of the Departmental Union of the North CGT, announced in La Voix du Nord his intention to lead a strike during the 3rd stage of the most famous cycling competition in the world. The will behind this action? Press to try to save the 302 positions threatened with suppression by the metallurgy company, ArcelorMittal.

Read also:
Replay. Demonstrations of the May 1: 300,00 demonstrators were present throughout France according to the CGT, 157,000 according to the Ministry of the interior

“We are going to be very clear, I respect the Tour de France and those who love it, but there there is an economic and social emergency. Metal touches everyone. Including cycling,” he told our colleagues on the sidelines of the mobilization of May 1 in Dunkirk.

“There will be no yellow jersey in Dunkirk”

He continues on the claims that push the CGT to imagine having recourse to an action of this magnitude: “If by July 7, we were not gathered to speak nationalization of the steel industry, there will be no yellow jersey in Dunkirk.”

Read also:
“We had the idea of making a transportable barbecue”: the unusual Tour de France on a bicycle of a Lot-et-Garonnais and his friend

If it is not heard the CGT is ready to use (very) major means. “Unless the interior and justice ministers are able to put a CRS every 20 meters, 178 kilometers of course between Valenciennes and Dunkirk. If we put 1000 to 2000 comrades, that makes a comrade every 100 meters. They will be able to put all the companies of CRS de France and Navarre for the third stage.” The safest way for the stage to be held is that protesters’ claims are heard before so that they do not need to use this practice.