The Lyon Confluence barracks put up for sale on Leboncoin.
To alert people about their situation and get people to react, the striking Rhône firefighters have put the Lyon Confluence barracks up for sale on the Leboncoin site.
It's a funny announcement that doesn't go unnoticed in the “Real Estate Sales” category of the Leboncoin site in Lyon. The Lyon Confluence fire station was put up for sale on the online platform by firefighters on indefinite strike since October 1.
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The ad entitled “To enter confluence fire station” was posted online yesterday at 10 p.m. by a mysterious profile called “Conf”. It is specified that the property is 200 m2 and 20 rooms. “Following insufficient staffing, the confluence barracks are in liquidation. Its sale will finance around a hundred Professional Firefighter positions in order to best serve the population of Lyon and respond to growing operational demands (+50,000 interventions and -100 spp)” explains the ad.
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The barracks are on sale for 100,000 euros and the ad concludes, a bit mockingly: “Make an offer, Métropole abstain…“For sale” signs were even hung in several places on the barracks gates, as evidenced by the few photos on the ad.
“A strong sign sent to our hierarchy and to the Metropolis”
Through this unusual operation, the strikers, who have been demanding salary increases and recruitment for more than two months to cope with the increase in the number of their interventions, intend to alert their management and the Métropole de Lyon, the main financier of the SDMIS , about their situation. A “strong sign sent to our hierarchy and to the Metropolis who do not want to hear anything concerning our demands” explains one of the striking firefighters to Lyon Capitale.
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The firefighters planned to demonstrate on Thursday December 5, the opening day of the Festival of Lights in Lyon. A meeting at 4:30 p.m. at the SDMIS headquarters is planned before the strikers head towards the city center of Lyon, without knowing whether the firefighters plan to disrupt the smooth running of the event in the streets of Lyon.
