Air France: laid-off employees have decided to speak out

The five employees laid off by Air France following the events which marred the Central Works Council, and who had seen several company executives physically attacked, decided to speak.

Prosecuted for their alleged role in the aggravated violence and relieved of their duties, without pay, from October 15, these employees wished to give their version of the facts while remaining anonymous.

Coming out of silence for the first time, they consider themselves “traumatized by the conditions of their arrest” of having been “treated like bandits” and denounce the fact of having “been designated guilty before being judged”.

The five employees remember their arrest on October 12, in particular one of them who, after a night of work, found three police officers in front of his home: “ I felt like a terrorist. The worst ? It was for my children“. Also " traumatized by police custody“, for him, a simple summons was enough…

“We came here for our jobs, not to break”

Concerning the facts, all deny their involvement in the violence: “ We came here for our jobs, not to break“, confides anonymously a laid-off employee. “ I don't regret taking part in a demonstration to save my job"

The five employees, aged 35 to 48, will be tried on December 2 before the Bobigny court for “acts of violence in meetings”.