the death of a worker will always be more tragic than a failed Christmas Eve – Libération

Those who love to hate railway workers and civil servants reacted too quickly, before knowing that the delays of the TGV Sud-Est were due to the suicide of a driver, Bruno Rejony. These hasty reactions illustrate the growing individualism of our society and the absence, among some, of solidarity.

Tuesday evening, while millions of French people are making final preparations for their Christmas Eve, while others are preparing to spend it in the cold, a train makes an emergency stop in Seine-et-Marne. Due to a “personal accident”, one of the modest expressions which sometimes means the death of a man or woman. Thousands of passengers then found themselves stuck on the rails. Exasperated messages on social networks from people who are not concerned, angry testimonies from users recorded by BFMTV, which headlines, several hours before knowing the reasons for this delay: ““It’s scandalous on Christmas Eve”: stuck on a train, hundreds of passengers had a nightmarish New Year’s Eve.” This Wednesday morning, while the last gifts were being opened under the trees, we learned that this “personal accident” was in reality the suicide of Bruno Rejony, 52, driver of a high-speed train traveling on the South-East network.

The brand new Minister of Transport, Philippe Tabarot, delivered a lunar analysis,