Greeted by the police
The green descent into Ardennes did not go as planned. The secret had been fanned. The police were present in the street of David Clarinval, a CSC official warned the participants that the police, with whom he had just exchanged, were rather there “To protect them”. Because, dixit the union permanent Christophe Cruquener to his troops, the target of the day “To his fans in Bièvre”. In addition, according to what was announced, the minister had not spent the night in Bièvre, but in Brussels, in his official accommodation, due to the Kern meeting the day before. Another message: his wife had no intention of opening.
Question of trade unionists, gathered in the parking lot on the outskirts of the Ardennes village: what do we do? They still joined the rue de Monceau where the police had reserved a parking lot to them, a few hundred meters from the Clarinval home, which they rallied in procession. Surrealist scene, in a sleeping village. We had warned them: they would have sounds, we would not open them. They sounded, under the eyes of the police mobilized in force and in fact, the door of the ministerial domicile remained closed.
This did not prevent them from delivering their message, on the steps of the stone building. Various distribution workers who operate at night were surprised that the minister of “those who work” want to penalize the brave who do it during the ungrateful hours. The € 500 promised to “hard workers”, especially by the MR? A worker from large distribution, at work between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., said how he may lose around € 100 gross per month. While colleagues, who operate in the evening, will have three times more in the slats. Another speaker, in an empty street, except demonstrators and police, suggested to the Minister to come and spend a night with him at work, just to realize.
All this, despite obvious anger, remained a good child. CSC activists left a message to the Minister, stuck on his door. They also put a small gift in front of his house: an alarm clock. An old awakening dating from the twenties of the last century, symbol for them social regressions implemented by the federal government.