A complaint was filed against distributors in Martinique for “abuse of dominant position”.
The procedure takes place a few months after the movement against the high cost of living.
Large distribution in the viewfinder. Distribution players are targeted, a few months after a movement against the high cost of living, by a complaint for “entente” et “abuse of dominant position” at the Fort-de-France judicial court, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said this Wednesday. “We are filing a complaint that we qualify as citizen. The public prosecutor’s office has been contacted”declared to AFP Me Renaud Portejoie, lawyer at the Fort-de-France bar.
A distributor already sued
Dated January 13, the five-page document was sent to the prosecution. The four plaintiffs had already started another procedure against the Bernard Hayot Group (GBH), leader in mass distribution (new window) in the West Indies. In November, they took the manager of this company before the mixed commercial court, accusing him of evading his legal obligation to submit his annual accounts. Following a referral decided on December 19, a hearing is scheduled for January 23.
GBH “is not specifically targeted” by this new procedure, explained Me Portejoie. “There are other actors. It is up to the investigation to determine what offenses were committed, and by whom”he added. The referral to the public prosecutor’s office was prompted by the publication, on January 9, of an investigation entitled “High cost of living in the Antilles: the suspicious profits of the Bernard Hayot Group overseas” in everyday life Liberation (new window). This item “affirms the existence of offenses on the territory of Martinique”says the lawyer again.
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The next day, the group denounced, in a press release, “attacks” which he described as“unfounded and approximate”. Based in Martinique and present in several overseas territories, GBH is not “in no way dominant position”retorted the company, arguing “numerous investigations and controls by competition authorities”.
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