“The dismissal of the four agents is confirmed,” Francis Casanova, central union delegate of the CGT reported this Thursday by RTE. The four RTE employees, summoned before the Paris Criminal Court on February 28, had been taken into police custody at the beginning of October at the premises of the intelligence services, the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI). A procedure that followed a complaint against X from RTE for suspicions of fraudulent interventions in the electrical network, in the context of the social movements of June and July.
The group had also launched an internal investigation, at the end of which it had served the four employees, during preliminary interviews, to consider their “forced retirement”, which is equivalent to dismissal.
A “management-orchestrated machination”
Contacted by AFP, the management confirmed these sanctions, indicating that “they are the consequence of serious acts committed in the electrical network, which could have had serious consequences, such as a power outage, or even the collapse of the electrical system of an entire region.”
The CGT Secretary General himself, Philippe Martinez, had intervened in this matter. Calling Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in a letter dated December 7, he asked her to “stop” these dismissal proceedings.
The CGT leader denounced a “machination orchestrated by the company’s management”, considering, based on the DGSI report that questioned the four agents, that the RTE security director had “directly arrested the DGSI, after the company filed a complaint against X at the Lille police station”.
The management denied, indicating that it had simply “informed the cybernetic section of the DGSI”, and evoking a “usual procedure” for this type of action.
He assured that “the Public Ministry, and only it, decided to seize the section specialized in cybercrime,” which “then designated the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) as the investigative service.”
Source: BFM TV
